What is Object Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python?

Learn what object-oriented programming (OOP) is and why it’s used in Python programming.

Lots of popular frameworks and libraries are written using OOP, so it’s a good tool to have in your Python toolkit.

OOP is a programming paradigm, or a specific way of designing a program. It allows us to think of the data in our program in terms of real-world objects, with both properties and behaviors. These objects can be passed around throughout our program.