Quotes About Objects

Where then shall hope and fear their objects find?

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and create an atmosphere.

a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.

For Nature is so full of variety, that our weak Senses cannot perceive all the various sorts of her Creatures; neither is there any one object perceptible by all our Senses, no more then several objects are by one sense.

Consensus is the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects. - Margaret Thatcher.

The simplicity or imperfection of external objects often serves to develop the activity and the dexterity of the pupils. This

Clare concentrated on the words trying hard to press them into her memory and wishing they were solid objects that she could keep and carry around with her.

It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory.

Though there's something more tender, beneath our vanity, our will to become objects of desire: we sweat the mark of our presence onto the cloth.

In fact, within Python, instance and class objects are mostly just dictionaries with links between them.

Although we could implement all class behavior as method functions, operator overloading lets objects be more tightly integrated with Python's object model.

On the other hand, you might decide to use operator overloading if you need to pass a user-defined object to a function that was coded to expect the operators available on a built-in type like a list or a dictionary.

Python "best practice" rule of thumb is to use docstrings for functional documentation (what your objects do) and hash-mark comments for more micro-level documentation (how arcane bits of code work).

Technically, __str__ is preferred by print and str, and __repr__ is used as a fallback for these roles and in all other contexts.

but slots — and other "virtual" attributes — won't be reported as instance data.

Because shelves are Python objects containing Python objects, we can process them with normal Python syntax and development modes. Here, the interactive prompt effectively becomes a database client:

the attributes of a namespace object are usually implemented as dictionaries, and class inheritance trees are (generally speaking) just dictionaries with links to other dictionaries.

remember that generator functions simply return objects with methods that handle next operations run by for loops at each level, and don't produce any results until iterated; and

Still, object embedding, and design patterns based upon it, can be a very good fit when embedded objects require more limited interaction with the container than direct customization implies.

polymorphism means that the meaning of an operation depends on the object being operated on.

Despite its syntax details, Python's class system really is largely just a matter of searching for an attribute in a tree of objects, along with a special first argument for functions.

As we get deeper into Python classes, though, keep in mind that the OOP model in Python is very simple; as we've seen here, it's really just about looking up attributes in object trees and a special function argument.

everything is a "first class" object in Python —

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us