is python Object oriented??

[Tim Rowe]

2009/1/30 Hung Vo <hungvn94 at gmail.com>:

> I want to justify the above question (is Python Object-Oriented?).
> Does Python follow the concepts/practices of Encapsulation,
> Polymorphism and Interface, which are quite familiar to Java
> programmers?

It's not the role of the language to follow those concepts, it's the
role of the programmer to follow those concepts if the programmer
believes OO to be an appropriate paradigm for the task in hand.  If
the programmer decides that following those concepts is appropriate,
Python will offer more than enough support. If the programmer decides
that OO is not an appropriate paradigm but wants to follow procedural
or functional concepts instead, Python will support that, too.

Object orientation is not really a language property at all; it's a
design approach. I've written object oriented programs in C,
hand-coding the despatch tables, before anybody gave the name "object
oriented" to that approach. When people talk about an object oriented
language they either mean a language that allows a close mapping
between an object oriented design and the actual code (Python does),
or they mean a language that *requires* the code to conform to an
object oriented design (Python doesn't). So the answer to "Is Python
Object-Oriented" is either "yes" or "no", depending on what you're
/really/ asking.

-- 
Tim Rowe