6 Best Practices for Defining the Initialization Method In Python

Write readable and maintainable Python code

Yong Cui
Better Programming
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4 min readAug 11, 2021

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The essential cornerstone of Python as an object-oriented programming language is the definition of related classes to manage and process the data in your programs. When we create our classes, the first method that we define is the initialization method: __init__. Applying the best…

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Work at the nexus of biomedicine, data science & mobile dev. Author of Python How-to by Manning (https://www.manning.com/books/python-how-to).