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Python

Omar Farag
Omar Farag
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Posted by Omar Farag
Omar Farag
4,571 Points

What are classes in Python?

So I'm in a python track and I just finished one part of the course and went to the next. Kenneth starts mentioning classes but I have no idea what they are, and he never mentioned them before. Any idea on what they are and what they do? Thanks

Omar Farag
Omar Farag
4,571 Points
Omar Farag
Omar Farag
4,571 Points

I also have no idea what 'from re import is'. Does anyone know the course where these things are introduced? I can't seem to find it.

1 Answer

Urs Merkel
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Urs Merkel
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Urs Merkel
Urs Merkel
Courses Plus Student 4,552 Points

I know, it won't satisfy you but a really good answer to you question what classes are is listed here: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html

So in generell it is as in all other programming languages as well, classes are objects and class-objects group functions. You can import class-objects to other python scripts/ classes and so on to use the functions from a class-object.

more specific here: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html#class-definition-syntax

"from re import is'." imports the class is from the python-package re