Summary

In this chapter, we looked at decorators, discovered the reasons for having them, and covered a few examples using one or more at the same time. We also saw decorators that take arguments, which are usually used as decorator factories.

We scratched the surface of object-oriented programming in Python. We covered all the basics, so you should now be able to understand the code that will come in future chapters. We talked about all kinds of methods and attributes that one can write in a class, we explored inheritance versus composition, method overriding, properties, operator overloading, and polymorphism.

At the end, we very briefly touched base on iterators, so now you understand generators more deeply.

In the next chapter, we're going to see how to deal with files and how to persist data in several different ways and formats.