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1.2.9. Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) : Student

The document discusses object-oriented programming in Python. It provides an example of defining a Student class with attributes like name, age, and major and methods like set_age and set_major. It then defines a MasterStudent class that inherits from Student and adds an internship attribute. Object-oriented programming allows organizing code into classes that represent different objects, with methods and attributes. Classes can inherit from other classes to reuse code and consider variations on a base class.

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1.2.9. Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) : Student

The document discusses object-oriented programming in Python. It provides an example of defining a Student class with attributes like name, age, and major and methods like set_age and set_major. It then defines a MasterStudent class that inherits from Student and adds an internship attribute. Object-oriented programming allows organizing code into classes that represent different objects, with methods and attributes. Classes can inherit from other classes to reuse code and consider variations on a base class.

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11/16/2014

1.2.9. Object-oriented programming (OOP) Scipy lecture notes

1.2.9. Object-oriented programming (OOP)


Python supports object-oriented programming (OOP). The goals of OOP are:
to organize the code, and
to re-use code in similar contexts.
Here is a small example: we create a Student class, which is an object gathering several
custom functions (methods) and variables (attributes), we will be able to use:
>>>
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class Student(object):
def __init__(self, name):
self.name = name
def set_age(self, age):
self.age = age
def set_major(self, major):
self.major = major

>>>

anna = Student('anna')
anna.set_age(21)
anna.set_major('physics')

In the previous example, the Student class has __init__ , set_age and set_major methods. Its
attributes are name , age and major . We can call these methods and attributes with the
following notation: classinstance.method or classinstance.attribute . The __init__ constructor is
a special method we call with: MyClass(init parameters if any) .
Now, suppose we want to create a new class MasterStudent with the same methods and
attributes as the previous one, but with an additional internship attribute. We wont copy the
previous class, but inherit from it:
>>> class MasterStudent(Student):
...
internship = 'mandatory, from March to June'
...
>>> james = MasterStudent('james')
>>> james.internship
'mandatory, from March to June'
>>> james.set_age(23)
>>> james.age
23

>>>

The MasterStudent class inherited from the Student attributes and methods.
Thanks to classes and object-oriented programming, we can organize code with different
classes corresponding to different objects we encounter (an Experiment class, an Image
class, a Flow class, etc.), with their own methods and attributes. Then we can use
http://scipy-lectures.github.io/intro/language/oop.html

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1.2.9. Object-oriented programming (OOP) Scipy lecture notes

inheritance to consider variations around a base class and re-use code. Ex : from a Flow
base class, we can create derived StokesFlow, TurbulentFlow, PotentialFlow, etc.

http://scipy-lectures.github.io/intro/language/oop.html

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