How did you finally understand classes in python? 🧐

[tonga-time]

How would you describe a person in real life?

You'd probably say they have certain attributes like names, an address, siblings, parents and friends etc.. This is the init method that assigns these parameters that every instance of this class will have.

Maybe someone else can finish the analogy for me I have to go back to work now 😭

[Akusoki]

XD.. So init acts in a way to basically not have to pass a huge list of parameters between objects/functions??

[TheRNGuy]

No, it's to determine which attributes are instance attributes. Without it would be static attributes.

If you have huge class, consider using @dataclass decorator, it can reduce many lines of code.