Parameter name
Description
Indicates whether the field should be included in the synthesized method. If unspecified, defaults to .
Provides the default value for the field.
Provides a runtime callback that returns the default value for the field. If neither nor are specified, the field is assumed to have no default value and must be provided a value when the class is instantiated.
An alias for the parameter on field specifiers.
Indicates whether the field should be marked as keyword-only. If , the field will be keyword-only. If , it will not be keyword-only. If unspecified, the value of the parameter on the object decorated with will be used, or if that is unspecified, the value of on will be used.
Provides an alternative name for the field. This alternative name is used in the synthesized method.
At runtime, this decorator records its arguments in the __dataclass_transform__ attribute on the decorated object. It has no other runtime effect.
See PEP 681 for more details.
Decorator for creating overloaded functions and methods.
The @overload decorator allows describing functions and methods that support multiple different combinations of argument types. A series of @overload -decorated definitions must be followed by exactly one non- @overload -decorated definition (for the same function/method).
@overload -decorated definitions are for the benefit of the type checker only, since they will be overwritten by the non- @overload -decorated definition. The non- @overload -decorated definition, meanwhile, will be used at runtime but should be ignored by a type checker. At runtime, calling an @overload -decorated function directly will raise NotImplementedError .
An example of overload that gives a more precise type than can be expressed using a union or a type variable:
See PEP 484 for more details and comparison with other typing semantics.
Changed in version 3.11: Overloaded functions can now be introspected at runtime using get_overloads() .
Return a sequence of @overload -decorated definitions for func .
func is the function object for the implementation of the overloaded function. For example, given the definition of process in the documentation for @overload , get_overloads(process) will return a sequence of three function objects for the three defined overloads. If called on a function with no overloads, get_overloads() returns an empty sequence.
get_overloads() can be used for introspecting an overloaded function at runtime.
Clear all registered overloads in the internal registry.
This can be used to reclaim the memory used by the registry.
Decorator to indicate final methods and final classes.
Decorating a method with @final indicates to a type checker that the method cannot be overridden in a subclass. Decorating a class with @final indicates that it cannot be subclassed.
Changed in version 3.11: The decorator will now attempt to set a __final__ attribute to True on the decorated object. Thus, a check like if getattr(obj, "__final__", False) can be used at runtime to determine whether an object obj has been marked as final. If the decorated object does not support setting attributes, the decorator returns the object unchanged without raising an exception.
Decorator to indicate that annotations are not type hints.
This works as a class or function decorator . With a class, it applies recursively to all methods and classes defined in that class (but not to methods defined in its superclasses or subclasses). Type checkers will ignore all annotations in a function or class with this decorator.
@no_type_check mutates the decorated object in place.
Decorator to give another decorator the no_type_check() effect.
This wraps the decorator with something that wraps the decorated function in no_type_check() .
Decorator to indicate that a method in a subclass is intended to override a method or attribute in a superclass.
Type checkers should emit an error if a method decorated with @override does not, in fact, override anything. This helps prevent bugs that may occur when a base class is changed without an equivalent change to a child class.
There is no runtime checking of this property.
The decorator will attempt to set an __override__ attribute to True on the decorated object. Thus, a check like if getattr(obj, "__override__", False) can be used at runtime to determine whether an object obj has been marked as an override. If the decorated object does not support setting attributes, the decorator returns the object unchanged without raising an exception.
See PEP 698 for more details.
Decorator to mark a class or function as unavailable at runtime.
This decorator is itself not available at runtime. It is mainly intended to mark classes that are defined in type stub files if an implementation returns an instance of a private class:
Note that returning instances of private classes is not recommended. It is usually preferable to make such classes public.
Return a dictionary containing type hints for a function, method, module or class object.
This is often the same as obj.__annotations__ , but this function makes the following changes to the annotations dictionary:
Forward references encoded as string literals or ForwardRef objects are handled by evaluating them in globalns , localns , and (where applicable) obj ’s type parameter namespace. If globalns or localns is not given, appropriate namespace dictionaries are inferred from obj .
None is replaced with types.NoneType .
If @no_type_check has been applied to obj , an empty dictionary is returned.
If obj is a class C , the function returns a dictionary that merges annotations from C ’s base classes with those on C directly. This is done by traversing C.__mro__ and iteratively combining __annotations__ dictionaries. Annotations on classes appearing earlier in the method resolution order always take precedence over annotations on classes appearing later in the method resolution order.
The function recursively replaces all occurrences of Annotated[T, ...] with T , unless include_extras is set to True (see Annotated for more information).
See also inspect.get_annotations() , a lower-level function that returns annotations more directly.
If any forward references in the annotations of obj are not resolvable or are not valid Python code, this function will raise an exception such as NameError . For example, this can happen with imported type aliases that include forward references, or with names imported under if TYPE_CHECKING .
Changed in version 3.9: Added include_extras parameter as part of PEP 593 . See the documentation on Annotated for more information.
Changed in version 3.11: Previously, Optional[t] was added for function and method annotations if a default value equal to None was set. Now the annotation is returned unchanged.
Get the unsubscripted version of a type: for a typing object of the form X[Y, Z, ...] return X .
If X is a typing-module alias for a builtin or collections class, it will be normalized to the original class. If X is an instance of ParamSpecArgs or ParamSpecKwargs , return the underlying ParamSpec . Return None for unsupported objects.
Get type arguments with all substitutions performed: for a typing object of the form X[Y, Z, ...] return (Y, Z, ...) .
If X is a union or Literal contained in another generic type, the order of (Y, Z, ...) may be different from the order of the original arguments [Y, Z, ...] due to type caching. Return () for unsupported objects.
Check if a type is a TypedDict .
Class used for internal typing representation of string forward references.
For example, List["SomeClass"] is implicitly transformed into List[ForwardRef("SomeClass")] . ForwardRef should not be instantiated by a user, but may be used by introspection tools.
PEP 585 generic types such as list["SomeClass"] will not be implicitly transformed into list[ForwardRef("SomeClass")] and thus will not automatically resolve to list[SomeClass] .
Added in version 3.7.4.
A special constant that is assumed to be True by 3rd party static type checkers. It is False at runtime.
The first type annotation must be enclosed in quotes, making it a “forward reference”, to hide the expensive_mod reference from the interpreter runtime. Type annotations for local variables are not evaluated, so the second annotation does not need to be enclosed in quotes.
If from __future__ import annotations is used, annotations are not evaluated at function definition time. Instead, they are stored as strings in __annotations__ . This makes it unnecessary to use quotes around the annotation (see PEP 563 ).
This module defines several deprecated aliases to pre-existing standard library classes. These were originally included in the typing module in order to support parameterizing these generic classes using [] . However, the aliases became redundant in Python 3.9 when the corresponding pre-existing classes were enhanced to support [] (see PEP 585 ).
The redundant types are deprecated as of Python 3.9. However, while the aliases may be removed at some point, removal of these aliases is not currently planned. As such, no deprecation warnings are currently issued by the interpreter for these aliases.
If at some point it is decided to remove these deprecated aliases, a deprecation warning will be issued by the interpreter for at least two releases prior to removal. The aliases are guaranteed to remain in the typing module without deprecation warnings until at least Python 3.14.
Type checkers are encouraged to flag uses of the deprecated types if the program they are checking targets a minimum Python version of 3.9 or newer.
Deprecated alias to dict .
Note that to annotate arguments, it is preferred to use an abstract collection type such as Mapping rather than to use dict or typing.Dict .
This type can be used as follows:
Deprecated since version 3.9: builtins.dict now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to list .
Note that to annotate arguments, it is preferred to use an abstract collection type such as Sequence or Iterable rather than to use list or typing.List .
This type may be used as follows:
Deprecated since version 3.9: builtins.list now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to builtins.set .
Note that to annotate arguments, it is preferred to use an abstract collection type such as AbstractSet rather than to use set or typing.Set .
Deprecated since version 3.9: builtins.set now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to builtins.frozenset .
Deprecated since version 3.9: builtins.frozenset now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias for tuple .
tuple and Tuple are special-cased in the type system; see Annotating tuples for more details.
Deprecated since version 3.9: builtins.tuple now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to type .
See The type of class objects for details on using type or typing.Type in type annotations.
Deprecated since version 3.9: builtins.type now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.defaultdict .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.defaultdict now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.OrderedDict .
Added in version 3.7.2.
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.OrderedDict now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.ChainMap .
Added in version 3.6.1.
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.ChainMap now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.Counter .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.Counter now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.deque .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.deque now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated since version 3.8, will be removed in version 3.13: The typing.io namespace is deprecated and will be removed. These types should be directly imported from typing instead.
Deprecated aliases corresponding to the return types from re.compile() and re.match() .
These types (and the corresponding functions) are generic over AnyStr . Pattern can be specialised as Pattern[str] or Pattern[bytes] ; Match can be specialised as Match[str] or Match[bytes] .
Deprecated since version 3.8, will be removed in version 3.13: The typing.re namespace is deprecated and will be removed. These types should be directly imported from typing instead.
Deprecated since version 3.9: Classes Pattern and Match from re now support [] . See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias for str .
Text is provided to supply a forward compatible path for Python 2 code: in Python 2, Text is an alias for unicode .
Use Text to indicate that a value must contain a unicode string in a manner that is compatible with both Python 2 and Python 3:
Deprecated since version 3.11: Python 2 is no longer supported, and most type checkers also no longer support type checking Python 2 code. Removal of the alias is not currently planned, but users are encouraged to use str instead of Text .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.Set .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.Set now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
This type represents the types bytes , bytearray , and memoryview of byte sequences.
Deprecated since version 3.9, will be removed in version 3.14: Prefer collections.abc.Buffer , or a union like bytes | bytearray | memoryview .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.Collection .
Added in version 3.6.
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.Collection now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.Container .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.Container now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.ItemsView .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.ItemsView now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.KeysView .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.KeysView now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.Mapping .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.Mapping now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.MappingView .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.MappingView now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.MutableMapping .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.MutableMapping now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.MutableSequence .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.MutableSequence now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.MutableSet .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.MutableSet now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.Sequence .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.Sequence now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.ValuesView .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.ValuesView now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.Coroutine .
The variance and order of type variables correspond to those of Generator , for example:
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.Coroutine now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.AsyncGenerator .
An async generator can be annotated by the generic type AsyncGenerator[YieldType, SendType] . For example:
Unlike normal generators, async generators cannot return a value, so there is no ReturnType type parameter. As with Generator , the SendType behaves contravariantly.
If your generator will only yield values, set the SendType to None :
Alternatively, annotate your generator as having a return type of either AsyncIterable[YieldType] or AsyncIterator[YieldType] :
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.AsyncGenerator now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.AsyncIterable .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.AsyncIterable now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.AsyncIterator .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.AsyncIterator now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.Awaitable .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.Awaitable now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.Iterable .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.Iterable now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.Iterator .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.Iterator now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.Callable .
See Annotating callable objects for details on how to use collections.abc.Callable and typing.Callable in type annotations.
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.Callable now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.Generator .
A generator can be annotated by the generic type Generator[YieldType, SendType, ReturnType] . For example:
Note that unlike many other generics in the typing module, the SendType of Generator behaves contravariantly, not covariantly or invariantly.
If your generator will only yield values, set the SendType and ReturnType to None :
Alternatively, annotate your generator as having a return type of either Iterable[YieldType] or Iterator[YieldType] :
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.Generator now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.Hashable .
Deprecated since version 3.12: Use collections.abc.Hashable directly instead.
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.Reversible .
Deprecated since version 3.9: collections.abc.Reversible now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to collections.abc.Sized .
Deprecated since version 3.12: Use collections.abc.Sized directly instead.
Deprecated alias to contextlib.AbstractContextManager .
Added in version 3.5.4.
Deprecated since version 3.9: contextlib.AbstractContextManager now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
Deprecated alias to contextlib.AbstractAsyncContextManager .
Added in version 3.6.2.
Deprecated since version 3.9: contextlib.AbstractAsyncContextManager now supports subscripting ( [] ). See PEP 585 and Generic Alias Type .
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Understanding python’s instantiation process, providing custom object initializers, building flexible object initializers, providing custom object creators, subclassing immutable built-in types, returning instances of a different class, allowing only a single instance in your classes, partially emulating collections.namedtuple.
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Class constructors are a fundamental part of object-oriented programming in Python. They allow you to create and properly initialize objects of a given class, making those objects ready to use. Class constructors internally trigger Python’s instantiation process, which runs through two main steps: instance creation and instance initialization .
If you want to dive deeper into how Python internally constructs objects and learn how to customize the process, then this tutorial is for you.
In this tutorial, you’ll:
With this knowledge, you’ll be able to tweak the creation and initialization of objects in your custom Python classes, which will give you control over the instantiation process at a more advanced level.
To better understand the examples and concepts in this tutorial, you should be familiar with object-oriented programming and special methods in Python.
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Like many other programming languages, Python supports object-oriented programming . At the heart of Python’s object-oriented capabilities, you’ll find the class keyword, which allows you to define custom classes that can have attributes for storing data and methods for providing behaviors.
Once you have a class to work with, then you can start creating new instances or objects of that class, which is an efficient way to reuse functionality in your code.
Creating and initializing objects of a given class is a fundamental step in object-oriented programming. This step is often referred to as object construction or instantiation . The tool responsible for running this instantiation process is commonly known as a class constructor .
In Python, to construct an object of a given class, you just need to call the class with appropriate arguments, as you would call any function :
In this example, you define SomeClass using the class keyword. This class is currently empty because it doesn’t have attributes or methods. Instead, the class’s body only contains a pass statement as a placeholder statement that does nothing.
Then you create a new instance of SomeClass by calling the class with a pair of parentheses. In this example, you don’t need to pass any argument in the call because your class doesn’t take arguments yet.
In Python, when you call a class as you did in the above example, you’re calling the class constructor, which creates, initializes, and returns a new object by triggering Python’s internal instantiation process.
A final point to note is that calling a class isn’t the same as calling an instance of a class. These are two different and unrelated topics. To make a class’s instance callable , you need to implement a .__call__() special method, which has nothing to do with Python’s instantiation process.
You trigger Python’s instantiation process whenever you call a Python class to create a new instance. This process runs through two separate steps, which you can describe as follows:
To run the first step, Python classes have a special method called .__new__() , which is responsible for creating and returning a new empty object. Then another special method, .__init__() , takes the resulting object, along with the class constructor’s arguments.
The .__init__() method takes the new object as its first argument, self . Then it sets any required instance attribute to a valid state using the arguments that the class constructor passed to it.
In short, Python’s instantiation process starts with a call to the class constructor, which triggers the instance creator , .__new__() , to create a new empty object. The process continues with the instance initializer , .__init__() , which takes the constructor’s arguments to initialize the newly created object.
To explore how Python’s instantiation process works internally, consider the following example of a Point class that implements a custom version of both methods, .__new__() and .__init__() , for demonstration purposes:
Here’s a breakdown of what this code does:
Line 3 defines the Point class using the class keyword followed by the class name.
Line 4 defines the .__new__() method, which takes the class as its first argument. Note that using cls as the name of this argument is a strong convention in Python, just like using self to name the current instance is. The method also takes *args and **kwargs , which allow for passing an undefined number of initialization arguments to the underlying instance.
Line 5 prints a message when .__new__() runs the object creation step.
Line 6 creates a new Point instance by calling the parent class’s .__new__() method with cls as an argument. In this example, object is the parent class, and the call to super() gives you access to it. Then the instance is returned. This instance will be the first argument to .__init__() .
Line 8 defines .__init__() , which is responsible for the initialization step. This method takes a first argument called self , which holds a reference to the current instance. The method also takes two additional arguments, x and y . These arguments hold initial values for the instance attributes .x and .y . You need to pass suitable values for these arguments in the call to Point() , as you’ll learn in a moment.
Line 9 prints a message when .__init__() runs the object initialization step.
Lines 10 and 11 initialize .x and .y , respectively. To do this, they use the provided input arguments x and y .
Lines 13 and 14 implement the .__repr__() special method, which provides a proper string representation for your Point class.
With Point in place, you can uncover how the instantiation process works in practice. Save your code to a file called point.py and start your Python interpreter in a command-line window. Then run the following code:
Calling the Point() class constructor creates, initializes, and returns a new instance of the class. This instance is then assigned to the point variable .
In this example, the call to the constructor also lets you know the steps that Python internally runs to construct the instance. First, Python calls .__new__() and then .__init__() , resulting in a new and fully initialized instance of Point , as you confirmed at the end of the example.
To continue learning about class instantiation in Python, you can try running both steps manually:
In this example, you first call .__new__() on your Point class, passing the class itself as the first argument to the method. This call only runs the first step of the instantiation process, creating a new and empty object. Note that creating an instance this way bypasses the call to .__init__() .
Note: The code snippet above is intended to be a demonstrative example of how the instantiation process works internally. It’s not something that you would typically do in real code.
Once you have the new object, then you can initialize it by calling .__init__() with an appropriate set of arguments. After this call, your Point object is properly initialized, with all its attributes set up.
A subtle and important detail to note about .__new__() is that it can also return an instance of a class different from the class that implements the method itself. When that happens, Python doesn’t call .__init__() in the current class, because there’s no way to unambiguously know how to initialize an object of a different class.
Consider the following example, in which the .__new__() method of the B class returns an instance of the A class:
Because B.__new__() returns an instance of a different class, Python doesn’t run B.__init__() . To confirm this behavior, save the code into a file called ab_classes.py and then run the following code in an interactive Python session:
The call to the B() class constructor runs B.__new__() , which returns an instance of A instead of B . That’s why B.__init__() never runs. Note that b doesn’t have a .b_value attribute. In contrast, b does have an .a_value attribute with a value of 42 .
Now that you know the steps that Python internally takes to create instances of a given class, you’re ready to dig a little deeper into other characteristics of .__init__() , .__new__() , and the steps that they run.
In Python, the .__init__() method is probably the most common special method that you’ll ever override in your custom classes. Almost all your classes will need a custom implementation of .__init__() . Overriding this method will allow you to initialize your objects properly.
The purpose of this initialization step is to leave your new objects in a valid state so that you can start using them right away in your code. In this section, you’ll learn the basics of writing your own .__init__() methods and how they can help you customize your classes.
The most bare-bones implementation of .__init__() that you can write will just take care of assigning input arguments to matching instance attributes. For example, say you’re writing a Rectangle class that requires .width and .height attributes. In that case, you can do something like this:
As you learned before, .__init__() runs the second step of the object instantiation process in Python. Its first argument, self , holds the new instance that results from calling .__new__() . The rest of the arguments to .__init__() are normally used to initialize instance attributes. In the above example, you initialized the rectangle’s .width and .height using the width and height arguments to .__init__() .
It’s important to note that, without counting self , the arguments to .__init__() are the same ones that you passed in the call to the class constructor. So, in a way, the .__init__() signature defines the signature of the class constructor.
Additionally, keep in mind that .__init__() must not explicitly return anything different from None , or you’ll get a TypeError exception:
In this example, the .__init__() method attempts to return an integer number , which ends up raising a TypeError exception at run time.
The error message in the above example says that .__init__() should return None . However, you don’t need to return None explicitly, because methods and functions without an explicit return statement just return None implicitly in Python.
With the above implementation of .__init__() , you ensure that .width and .height get initialized to a valid state when you call the class constructor with appropriate arguments. That way, your rectangles will be ready for use right after the construction process finishes.
In .__init__() , you can also run any transformation over the input arguments to properly initialize the instance attributes. For example, if your users will use Rectangle directly, then you might want to validate the supplied width and height and make sure that they’re correct before initializing the corresponding attributes:
In this updated implementation of .__init__() , you make sure that the input width and height arguments are positive numbers before initializing the corresponding .width and .height attributes. If either validation fails, then you get a ValueError .
Note: A more Pythonic technique to tackle attribute validation is to turn attributes into properties . To learn more about properties, check out Python’s property(): Add Managed Attributes to Your Classes .
Now say that you’re using inheritance to create a custom class hierarchy and reuse some functionality in your code. If your subclasses provide a .__init__() method, then this method must explicitly call the base class’s .__init__() method with appropriate arguments to ensure the correct initialization of instances. To do this, you should use the built-in super() function like in the following example:
The first line in the .__init__() method of Employee calls super().__init__() with name and birth_date as arguments. This call ensures the initialization of .name and .birth_date in the parent class, Person . This technique allows you to extend the base class with new attributes and functionality.
To wrap up this section, you should know that the base implementation of .__init__() comes from the built-in object class. This implementation is automatically called when you don’t provide an explicit .__init__() method in your classes.
You can make your objects’ initialization step flexible and versatile by tweaking the .__init__() method. To this end, one of the most popular techniques is to use optional arguments . This technique allows you to write classes in which the constructor accepts different sets of input arguments at instantiation time. Which arguments to use at a given time will depend on your specific needs and context.
As a quick example, check out the following Greeter class:
In this example, .__init__() takes a regular argument called name . It also takes an optional argument called formal , which defaults to False . Because formal has a default value, you can construct objects by relying on this value or by providing your own.
The class’s final behavior will depend on the value of formal . If this argument is False , then you’ll get an informal greeting when you call .greet() . Otherwise, you’ll get a more formal greeting.
To try Greeter out, go ahead and save the code into a greet.py file. Then open an interactive session in your working directory and run the following code:
In the first example, you create an informal_greeter object by passing a value to the name argument and relying on the default value of formal . You get an informal greeting on your screen when you call .greet() on the informal_greeter object.
In the second example, you use a name and a formal argument to instantiate Greeter . Because formal is True , the result of calling .greet() is a formal greeting.
Even though this is a toy example, it showcases how default argument values are a powerful Python feature that you can use to write flexible initializers for your classes. These initializers will allow you to instantiate your classes using different sets of arguments depending on your needs.
Okay! Now that you know the basics of .__init__() and the object initialization step, it’s time to change gears and start diving deeper into .__new__() and the object creation step.
When writing Python classes, you typically don’t need to provide your own implementation of the .__new__() special method. Most of the time, the base implementation from the built-in object class is sufficient to build an empty object of your current class.
However, there are a few interesting use cases for this method. For example, you can use .__new__() to create subclasses of immutable types, such as int , float , tuple , and str .
In the following sections, you’ll learn how to write custom implementations of .__new__() in your classes. To do this, you’ll code a few examples that’ll give you an idea of when you might need to override this method.
Typically, you’ll write a custom implementation of .__new__() only when you need to control the creation of a new instance at a low level. Now, if you need a custom implementation of this method, then you should follow a few steps:
With these three succinct steps, you’ll be able to customize the instance creation step in the Python instantiation process. Here’s an example of how you can translate these steps into Python code:
This example provides a sort of template implementation of .__new__() . As usual, .__new__() takes the current class as an argument that’s typically called cls .
Note that you’re using *args and **kwargs to make the method more flexible and maintainable by accepting any number of arguments. You should always define .__new__() with *args and **kwargs , unless you have a good reason to follow a different pattern.
In the first line of .__new__() , you call the parent class’s .__new__() method to create a new instance and allocate memory for it. To access the parent class’s .__new__() method, you use the super() function. This chain of calls takes you up to object.__new__() , which is the base implementation of .__new__() for all Python classes.
Note: The built-in object class is the default base class of all Python classes.
The next step is to customize your newly created instance. You can do whatever you need to do to customize the instance at hand. Finally, in the third step, you need to return the new instance to continue the instantiation process with the initialization step.
It’s important to note that object.__new__() itself only accepts a single argument, the class to instantiate. If you call object.__new__() with more arguments, then you get a TypeError :
In this example, you hand over *args and **kwargs as additional arguments in the call to super().__new__() . The underlying object.__new__() accepts only the class as an argument, so you get a TypeError when you instantiate the class.
However, object.__new__() still accepts and passes over extra arguments to .__init__() if your class doesn’t override .__new__() , as in the following variation of SomeClass :
In this implementation of SomeClass , you don’t override .__new__() . The object creation is then delegated to object.__new__() , which now accepts value and passes it over to SomeClass.__init__() to finalize the instantiation. Now you can create new and fully initialized instances of SomeClass , just like some_obj in the example.
Cool! Now that you know the basics of writing your own implementations of .__new__() , you’re ready to dive into a few practical examples that feature some of the most common use cases of this method in Python programming.
To kick things off, you’ll start with a use case of .__new__() that consists of subclassing an immutable built-in type. As an example, say you need to write a Distance class as a subclass of Python’s float type. Your class will have an additional attribute to store the unit that’s used to measure the distance.
Here’s a first approach to this problem, using the .__init__() method:
When you subclass an immutable built-in data type, you get an error. Part of the problem is that the value is set during creation, and it’s too late to change it during initialization. Additionally, float.__new__() is called under the hood, and it doesn’t deal with extra arguments in the same way as object.__new__() . This is what raises the error in your example.
To work around this issue, you can initialize the object at creation time with .__new__() instead of overriding .__init__() . Here’s how you can do this in practice:
In this example, .__new__() runs the three steps that you learned in the previous section. First, the method creates a new instance of the current class, cls , by calling super().__new__() . This time, the call rolls back to float.__new__() , which creates a new instance and initializes it using value as an argument. Then the method customizes the new instance by adding a .unit attribute to it. Finally, the new instance gets returned.
Note: The Distance class in the example above doesn’t provide a proper unit conversion mechanism. This means that something like Distance(10, "km") + Distance(20, "miles") won’t attempt at converting units before adding the values. If you’re interested in converting units, then check out the Pint project on PyPI .
That’s it! Now your Distance class works as expected, allowing you to use an instance attribute for storing the unit in which you’re measuring the distance. Unlike the floating-point value stored in a given instance of Distance , the .unit attribute is mutable, so you can change its value any time you like. Finally, note how a call to the dir() function reveals that your class inherits features and methods from float .
Returning an object of a different class is a requirement that can raise the need for a custom implementation of .__new__() . However, you should be careful because in this case, Python skips the initialization step entirely. So, you’ll have the responsibility of taking the newly created object into a valid state before using it in your code.
Check out the following example, in which the Pet class uses .__new__() to return instances of randomly selected classes:
In this example, Pet provides a .__new__() method that creates a new instance by randomly selecting a class from a list of existing classes.
Here’s how you can use this Pet class as a factory of pet objects:
Every time you instantiate Pet , you get a random object from a different class. This result is possible because there’s no restriction on the object that .__new__() can return. Using .__new__() in such a way transforms a class into a flexible and powerful factory of objects, not limited to instances of itself.
Finally, note how the .__init__() method of Pet never runs. That’s because Pet.__new__() always returns objects of a different class rather than of Pet itself.
Sometimes you need to implement a class that allows the creation of a single instance only. This type of class is commonly known as a singleton class. In this situation, the .__new__() method comes in handy because it can help you restrict the number of instances that a given class can have.
Note: Most experienced Python developers would argue that you don’t need to implement the singleton design pattern in Python unless you already have a working class and need to add the pattern’s functionality on top of it.
The rest of the time, you can use a module-level constant to get the same singleton functionality without having to write a relatively complex class.
Here’s an example of coding a Singleton class with a .__new__() method that allows the creation of only one instance at a time. To do this, .__new__() checks the existence of previous instances cached on a class attribute:
The Singleton class in this example has a class attribute called ._instance that defaults to None and works as a cache . The .__new__() method checks if no previous instance exists by testing the condition cls._instance is None .
Note: In the example above, Singleton doesn’t provide an implementation of .__init__() . If you ever need a class like this with a .__init__() method, then keep in mind that this method will run every time you call the Singleton() constructor. This behavior can cause weird initialization effects and bugs.
If this condition is true, then the if code block creates a new instance of Singleton and stores it to cls._instance . Finally, the method returns the new or the existing instance to the caller.
Then you instantiate Singleton twice to try to construct two different objects, first and second . If you compare the identity of these objects with the is operator, then you’ll note that both objects are the same object. The names first and second just hold references to the same Singleton object.
As a final example of how to take advantage of .__new__() in your code, you can push your Python skills and write a factory function that partially emulates collections.namedtuple() . The namedtuple() function allows you to create subclasses of tuple with the additional feature of having named fields for accessing the items in the tuple.
The code below implements a named_tuple_factory() function that partially emulates this functionality by overriding the .__new__() method of a nested class called NamedTuple :
Here’s how this factory function works line by line:
Line 3 imports itemgetter() from the operator module. This function allows you to retrieve items using their index in the containing sequence.
Line 5 defines named_tuple_factory() . This function takes a first argument called type_name , which will hold the name of the tuple subclass that you want to create. The *fields argument allows you to pass an undefined number of field names as strings .
Line 6 defines a local variable to hold the number of named fields provided by the user.
Line 8 defines a nested class called NamedTuple , which inherits from the built-in tuple class.
Line 9 provides a .__slots__ class attribute. This attribute defines a tuple for holding instance attributes. This tuple saves memory by acting as a substitute for the instance’s dictionary, .__dict__ , which would otherwise play a similar role.
Line 11 implements .__new__() with cls as its first argument. This implementation also takes the *args argument to accept an undefined number of field values.
Lines 12 to 16 define a conditional statement that checks if the number of items to store in the final tuple differs from the number of named fields. If that’s the case, then the conditional raises a TypeError with an error message.
Line 17 sets the .__name__ attribute of the current class to the value provided by type_name .
Lines 18 and 19 define a for loop that turns every named field into a property that uses itemgetter() to return the item at the target index . The loop uses the built-in setattr() function to perform this action. Note that the built-in enumerate() function provides the appropriate index value.
Line 20 returns a new instance of the current class by calling super().__new__() as usual.
Lines 22 and 23 define a .__repr__() method for your tuple subclass.
Line 25 returns the newly created NamedTuple class.
To try your named_tuple_factory() out, fire up an interactive session in the directory containing the named_tuple.py file and run the following code:
In this code snippet, you create a new Point class by calling named_tuple_factory() . The first argument in this call represents the name that the resulting class object will use. The second and third arguments are the named fields available in the resulting class.
Then you create a Point object by calling the class constructor with appropriate values for the .x and .y fields. To access the value of each named field, you can use the dot notation. You can also use indices to retrieve the values because your class is a tuple subclass.
Because tuples are immutable data types in Python, you can’t assign new values to the point’s coordinates in place . If you try to do that, then you get an AttributeError .
Finally, calling dir() with your point instance as an argument reveals that your object inherits all the attributes and methods that regular tuples have in Python.
Now you know how Python class constructors allow you to instantiate classes, so you can create concrete and ready-to-use objects in your code. In Python, class constructors internally trigger the instantiation or construction process, which goes through instance creation and instance initialization . These steps are driven by the .__new__() and .__init__() special methods.
By learning about Python’s class constructors, the instantiation process, and the .__new__() and .__init__() methods, you can now manage how your custom classes construct new instances.
In this tutorial, you learned:
Now you’re ready to take advantage of this knowledge to fine-tune your class constructors and take full control over instance creation and initialization in your object-oriented programming adventure with Python.
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Operators are special symbols that perform operations on variables and values. For example,
Here, + is an operator that adds two numbers: 5 and 6 .
Here's a list of different types of Python operators that we will learn in this tutorial.
Arithmetic operators are used to perform mathematical operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc. For example,
Here, - is an arithmetic operator that subtracts two values or variables.
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In the above example, we have used multiple arithmetic operators,
Assignment operators are used to assign values to variables. For example,
Here, = is an assignment operator that assigns 5 to x .
Here's a list of different assignment operators available in Python.
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Assignment Operator | ||
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Subtraction Assignment | ||
Multiplication Assignment | ||
Division Assignment | ||
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Here, we have used the += operator to assign the sum of a and b to a .
Similarly, we can use any other assignment operators as per our needs.
Comparison operators compare two values/variables and return a boolean result: True or False . For example,
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Not Equal To | gives us | |
Greater Than | gives us | |
Less Than | gives us | |
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Note: Comparison operators are used in decision-making and loops . We'll discuss more of the comparison operator and decision-making in later tutorials.
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a b | : if at least one of the operands is | |
a | : if the operand is and vice-versa. |
Note : Here is the truth table for these logical operators.
Bitwise operators act on operands as if they were strings of binary digits. They operate bit by bit, hence the name.
For example, 2 is 10 in binary, and 7 is 111 .
In the table below: Let x = 10 ( 0000 1010 in binary) and y = 4 ( 0000 0100 in binary)
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Bitwise OR | x | y = 14 ( ) | |
Bitwise NOT | ~x = -11 ( ) | |
Bitwise XOR | x ^ y = 14 ( ) | |
Bitwise right shift | x >> 2 = 2 ( ) | |
Bitwise left shift | x 0010 1000) |
Python language offers some special types of operators like the identity operator and the membership operator. They are described below with examples.
In Python, is and is not are used to check if two values are located at the same memory location.
It's important to note that having two variables with equal values doesn't necessarily mean they are identical.
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Here, we see that x1 and y1 are integers of the same values, so they are equal as well as identical. The same is the case with x2 and y2 (strings).
But x3 and y3 are lists. They are equal but not identical. It is because the interpreter locates them separately in memory, although they are equal.
In Python, in and not in are the membership operators. They are used to test whether a value or variable is found in a sequence ( string , list , tuple , set and dictionary ).
In a dictionary, we can only test for the presence of a key, not the value.
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Here, 'H' is in message , but 'hello' is not present in message (remember, Python is case-sensitive).
Similarly, 1 is key, and 'a' is the value in dictionary dict1 . Hence, 'a' in y returns False .
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What I'm trying to do is implement a generalized tree structure that acts as intuitively (to me) as possible and also seamlessly integrates with PyQt5's Model-View-Delegate architecture.
I want to be able to set the incoming item_or_tree to either the item or tree. So I'm looking to overload the function that's called when the = operator is used on the item.
PyQt has this item based architecture in which a QAbstractItemModel is overridden. This is (I guess) supposed to return / accept QModelIndex objects. These are trees of tables (2D arrays).
So I'm creating a single tree structure that can contain itself, deal with the 2 opposing indexing paradigms, and plays nice with Python and everything else.
It is not possible to override the implementation of x = y . See Facts and Myths about Python Names and Values for details of what assignment means.
You can override x.a = y , with __setattr__ , it is (roughly) x.__setattr__('a', y) .
You can override x[k] = y with __setitem__ , it is (roughly) x.__setitem__(k, y) .
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The function moon_weight takes an argument expected to be an instance of float, as indicated by the type hint earth_weight: float.The function is expected to return an instance of str, as indicated by the -> str hint.. While type hints can be simple classes like float or str, they can also be more complex.The typing module provides a vocabulary of more advanced type hints.
Here's a breakdown of what this code does: Line 3 defines the Point class using the class keyword followed by the class name.. Line 4 defines the .__new__() method, which takes the class as its first argument. Note that using cls as the name of this argument is a strong convention in Python, just like using self to name the current instance is. The method also takes *args and **kwargs, which ...
Python Object & Class. Python Objects and Classes; Python Inheritance; Python Multiple Inheritance; Polymorphism in Python; Python Operator Overloading; ... Here's a list of different assignment operators available in Python. Operator Name Example = Assignment Operator: a = 7 += Addition Assignment: a += 1 # a = a + 1-= Subtraction Assignment:
This section provides the homework assignments and projects for the course along with handouts and supporting files. Browse Course Material ... All MIT Course 6 classes currently use a version of Python 2.6. ASSN # ASSIGNMENTS SUPPORTING FILES Homework 1 Handout . Written exercises . Code template Homework 2 Handout ...
python programs with output for class 12 and 11 students. Simple Assignements are for beginners starting from basics hello world program to game development using class and object concepts. A list of assignment solutions with source code are provided to learn concept by examples in an easy way.
I've been trying to understand Python's handling of class and instance variables. In particular, I found this answer quite helpful. Basically it says that if you declare a class variable, and then you do an assignment to [instance].property , you will be assigning to a different variable altogether -- one in a different namespace from the class ...
It seems unintuitive that assignment does the following for classes: Turn functions into unbound instance methods. Turn functions wrapped in classmethod() into class methods (actually, this is pretty intuitive) Turn functions wrapped in staticmethod() into functions. It seems that for the first, there should be an instancemethod(), and for the ...
The best way to learn is by practising it more and more. The best thing about this Python practice exercise is that it helps you learn Python using sets of detailed programming questions from basic to advanced. It covers questions on core Python concepts as well as applications of Python in various domains.
JavaScript (JS) is a lightweight interpreted (or just-in-time compiled) programming language with first-class functions. While it is most well-known as the scripting language for Web pages, many non-browser environments also use it, such as Node.js, Apache CouchDB and Adobe Acrobat. JavaScript is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm, single-threaded, dynamic language, supporting object-oriented ...
I think this would violate Python's object model or variable/naming scheme. A name does not represent one object only, but just points to an object under the hood. Using the assignment operator just changes the object a name points to. -