Learn Python the Hard Way Ex41.py: "Learning to Speak Object Oriented"

super(Child, self).altered()

"call super with arguments Child and self, then call the function altered on whatever it returns."

instancec

what you get when you tell Python to create a class

Object

1) Most basic type of things 2) Any instance of some thing "Anything you get from Python when you create a class" of some thing

self

1) variable for the instance/object accessed 2) inside the functions in a class

def

how you define a function inside a class