{"id":130337,"date":"2023-05-10T17:57:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T12:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/?page_id=130337"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:33:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T09:03:59","slug":"classes-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/classes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Classes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Python, a class is a blueprint for creating objects, which are instances of the class. A class defines a set of attributes and methods that the objects created from it will have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To define a class in Python, we use the <code>class<\/code> keyword followed by the class name and a colon. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">pythonCopy code<code>class MyClass:\n    # class definition goes here\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Inside the class definition, we can define attributes and methods. 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