In this lecture, we start talking about object oriented programming, which is a way of programming by abstracting things we manipulate in a program as objects.
An object is a bundle of data and methods that handle the data.
In Python, everything is an object.
In fact, object is a type in the Python language.
You can create a new object using the object() function.
>>> o = object() >>> type(o) <type 'object'>
A function whose name is a type’s name and whose purpose is to create an object of that type is called a constructor.
As before, you can see what methods are contained in the object by using the dir function.
The fact that everything in Python is an object means that everything inherits from object. We will talk about inheritance in the next lecture, however.