16.1 TimeAs another example of a user-defined type, we’ll define a class called Time that records the time of day. The class definition looks like this: class Time(object): """Represents the time of day. attributes: hour, minute, second &qu…
17.1 Object-oriented featuresPython is an object-oriented programming language, which means that it provides features that support object-oriented programming.It is not easy to define object-oriented programming, but we have already seen some of its…
15.1 User-defined typesWe have used many of Python’s built-in types; now we are going to define a new type. As an example, we will create a type called Point that represents a point in two-dimensional space.In mathematical notation, points are often…
In this chapter I present classes to represent playing cards, decks of cards, and poker hands.If you don't play poker, you can read about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker, but you don’t have to; I’ll tell you what you need to know for the exe…
<Web Scraping with Python> Chapter 1 & 2: Your First Web Scraper & Advanced HTML Parsing BeautifulSoup Key: P5: urlib or urlib2? If you’ve used the urllib2 library in Python 2.x, you might have noticed that things have changed somewhat…
