Summary

Conclusion

Up till now, we’ve seen a total of four ways to address object-oriented design and implementation.

• In previous chapters, we looked at creating objects from scratch, writing all the method definitions ourselves. We’ve emphasized inheritance among the classes in the Sample class hierarchy.
• In this chapter, we’ve seen a stateful class definition using @dataclass. This supports inheritance among the classes in the Sample class hierarchy.
• We’ve also seen a stateless (or immutable) definition using @dataclass(frozen=True). This tends

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