Looking for a good introduction to object oriented programming with Python

[Ramchandra Apte]

Its a docstring - it documents the function/class
Did you know that docstrings can be used for testing - look at the doctest
standard library module!
try:

class A:
    def method(self):
        '''Sample method
This method does the difficult task X.
Call this method with no arguments.'''#docstring
        pass

then type :

help(A.method)

And viola!
On 6 August 2012 20:26, Jean Dubois <jeandubois314 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5 aug, 20:28, Mark Lawrence <breamore... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 05/08/2012 19:04, Jean Dubois wrote:
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> > > On 5 aug, 02:11, shearich... at gmail.com wrote:
> > >> One reason you may be having difficulty is that unlike some languages
> (C++/Java) object-orientation is not a be all and end all in Python, in
> fact you could work with Python for a long time without really 'doing it'
> at all (well other than calling methods/properties on existing API's).
> Having said that here's what I would suggest ...
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> > >> Could do worse than this :
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> > >>http://www.diveintopython.net/object_oriented_framework/index.html
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> > > This example seems to tell you need the concept of dictionaries to
> > > explain object oriented programming, is this really necessary?
> > >> and this
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> > >>http://docs.python.org/tutorial/classes.html
> > > Unfortunately, the trouble with this explanation is exactly what made
> > > me ask the original question: it starts from concepts in c++ making it
> > > very hard to understand for someone who does not know that language
> > > already.
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> > >> read together.
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> > >> Judging by your question this is a probably a little advanced for now
> but you could bookmark it for the future:
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> > >>http://www.catonmat.net/blog/learning-python-design-patterns-through-.
> ..
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> > >> Here's the corresponding PDF to go with the video:
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> > >>http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/45/Practical%20Python%20Patterns.
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> > > Can someone here on this list give a trivial example of what object
> > > oriented programming is, using only Python?
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> > > thanks in advance
> > > Jean
> >
> > Try thishttp://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/OOP.shtml???
> >
> > --
> > Cheers.
> >
> > Mark Lawrence.
> Thanks, this one is a lot better. Could you just tell me what the use
> is of the following lines:
> """Class docstring."""
> """Method docstring."""
> """Method docstring."""
> Taken from the following code fragment (I really want to understand
> every bit of code, and the author doesn't mention this)
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> class OurClass(object):
>     """Class docstring."""
>
>     def __init__(self, arg1, arg2):
>         """Method docstring."""
>         self.arg1 = arg1
>         self.arg2 = arg2
>
>     def printargs(self):
>         """Method docstring."""
>         print self.arg1
>         print self.arg2
>
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> thanks in advance
> jean
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