Python Programming

Our favourite PEP 8 states that “class names should normally use the CapWords convention”. So name your objects in CamelCase, like YorkshireTerrier or ComputerMonitor.

I am enforcing this strictly for this course. So please use CamelCase for your ClassName. This helps you distinguish between variables and function names (which should both be in lowercase) much better. It is also the convention in most programming languages anyway!

You can now create a new instance of your brand new Person class (although it is not quite useful at the moment!)

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class Person:
    pass

manager = Person()
print(manager)
print(isinstance(manager, Person))

The code should output something like <__main__.Person object at 0x7fe70c878c10> for Line 5. So manager points to the object of class Person at memory location 0x7fe70c878c10. We will talk about __main__ in the next chapter - it will make more sense then!

The built-in isinstance() function (Line 6) will return True if your object is an instance of a given class.

In essence, you have created a new instance of class Person!