Understanding classes in Python. Before diving into metaclasses, it’s essential to have a solid grasp of classes in Python. In Python, a class is a blueprint for creating objects.

Everything in Python is an object, or so the saying goes. If you want to create your own custom objects, with their own properties and methods, you use Python’s class object to make that happen ...

Getting started is relatively simple, got to love Python! You will create a class in just the same way you create a function, except you will use “class” instead of “def.” ...

Before we can create a songs table we need to create our music database. Whose responsibility is it to create the database? It is not the responsibility of our Song class. Remember, classes are mapped ...

Borrowed from Smalltalk, Python has an odd idea of classes. Generally, classes are pieces of code that can be used to create objects. This is true for Python too, however, in Python, classes are ...

Before we can create a songs table we need to create our music database. Whose responsibility is it to create the database? It is not the responsibility of our Song class. Remember, classes are mapped ...

And yet, I expect that for many people, dataclasses will become their preferred way to create Python classes. So in this article, I review the new dataclasses functionality in Python 3.7. If you're ...