The Python datamodel. Special methods in classes

Target audience

Students who especially benefit from this course:

• developers who have some beginner experience and want to learn better how Python works internally
• developers who bring their experience from another language and want to start using Python’s unique language features

Training contents

• Introduction: Learn what the Python Datamodel is
• String respresentation: How can objects return meaningful information when printed?
• Identity: Object Identity. What is that?
• Equality Operators: Create equality and comparing methods in your classes. Learn about hashing
• Object Creation: How does the constructor in Python work? How can objects be called?
• Container Objects: Length, Indexing and Interation
• Operator Overloading: Arithmetic operator overloading
• Context Managers: Wrap your code in a context manager to safely clean up resources

What can you do after this course?

• design you classes to work seamlessly with the Python programming language
• prevent verbose syntax by using Python’s unique built-in methods
• emulate iterators and context managers, support equality and sorting in custom classes

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