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5 Examples to Jumpstart Object Oriented

Programming in Python
by Aanisha Mishra on March 14, 2019

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OOP stands for Object Oriented Programming. This concept is a style of solving programming problems where
properties and behavior of a real-life object is packaged as a single entity in the code.

This style of coding enables modularizing and scaling with least amount of issues.

Python is a dynamically typed, high level interpreted programming language. Python supports several OOP features
including the following:

Classes and Objects

Encapsulation
Inheritance
Polymorphism

1. Classes in Python

Class is a blueprint of the real-life entity. In Python, it is created using the class keyword as shown in the following code
snippet.

class Person:
def __init__(self, name, age):
self.name = name
self.age = age

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In the above:

class – Here is a class named Person.

Constructors have the default name __init__. They are functions that are implicitly called when an object of the
class is created.
All instance methods including the constructor have their first parameter as self.
self refers to instance that is being referenced while calling the method.
name and age are the instance variables.

If you are new to Python, refer to this: Python Introduction Tutorial – Variable, String, Function Examples

2. Objects in Python

Once a Person class is defined you can use it to create an instance by passing values as shown below.

class Person:
def __init__(self, name, age):
self.name = name
self.age = age

if __name__ == "__main__":
p = Person("ranjeeta", 23)
print(p.name)

In the above:

p – is the name of the object that we are creating based on Person class
Even though the class has three parameters (self, name, age), we’ll still pass only name and age while creating an
object, as we don’t need to refer self here. It’s implicit.
Once an object is created, you can refer to the attributes of the object using a dot. For example, p.name refers to
the name attribute of that particular object

3. Inheritance in Python

As the name suggest, this concept is about inheriting properties from an existing entity. This increases reusability of code.
Single, Multiple and Multi-level inheritances are few of the many types supported by Python.

The following example shows how to use inheritance in python:

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class Person:
def __init__(self):
pass

# Single level inheritance

class Employee(Person):
def __init__(self):
pass

# Multi-level inheritance
class Manager(Employee):
def __init__(self):
pass

# Multiple Inheritance
class Enterprenaur(Person, Employee):
def __init__(self):
pass

In multiple inheritance, classes are inherited from left to right inside parenthesis, depending on Method Resolution Order
(MRO) algorithm of Python.

4. Encapsulation in Python

It is the concept of wrapping data such that the outer world has access only to exposed properties. Some properties can
be hidden to reduce vulnerability. This is an implementation of data hiding. For example, you want buy a pair of trousers
from an online site. The data that you want is its cost and availability. The number of items present and their location is
information that you are not bothered about. Hence it is hidden.

In Python this is implemented by creating private, protected and public instance variables and methods.

Private properties have double underscore (__) in the start, while protected properties have single underscore (_). By
default, all other variable and methods are public.

Private properties are accessible from within the class only and are not available for child class(if inherited). Protected
properties are accessible from within the class but are available to child class as well. All these restrictions are removed
for public properties.

The following code snippets is an example of this concept:

class Person:
def __init__(self, name, age):
self.name = name
self.age = age
def _protected_method(self):
print("protected method")
def __private_method(self):
print("privated method")

if __name__ == "__main__":
p = Person("mohan", 23)
p._protected_method() # shows a warning
p.__private_method() # throws Attribute error saying no such method exists

5. Polymorphism in Python

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This is a concept where a function can take multiple forms depending on the number of arguments or type of arguments
given to the function.

class Person:
def __init__(self, name, age):
self.name = name
self.age = age
def show_salary(self):
print("Salary is unknown")

class Employee(Person):
def __init__(self, name, age, salary):
super().__init__(name, age)
self.salary = salary
def show_salary(self):
print("Salary is", self.salary)

if __name__ == "__main__":
p = Person("y", 23)
x = Employee("x", 20, 100000)
p.show_salary() # Salary is unknown
x.show_salary() # Salary is 100000

In the above example, super keyword is used to call a method of parent class. Both classes have the method
show_salary. Depending on the object type that makes a call to this function, the output varies.

Python has inbuilt-polymorphism functions as well. One of the simplest examples is the print function in python.

print("Hello there", end=" ")

print("I am Aanisha")
print(len([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]))

Output of the above code will be:

Hello there I am Aanisha

5

In the above code snippet:

The end keyword parameter changed the functionality of print function. Hence it did not end ‘Hello There’ with an
end-line.
len([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]) in third line return an int. The print recognizes the data type and implicitly converts it to string
and prints it to the console.

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Temizzi March 15, 2019, 3:15 am

Great article.. I hope you will write more articles on Python as this is most popular languages not for Dev only but
also for tester, sysadmin, data scientists and others..

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