Example of Object Oriented Programming in Python

example_oop.py

# Here is an example of OOP in Python
class Device:
    """First we define a class with attributes. 
    Self represents the class itself. We can use this to reference attributes 
    and methods from within the class"""
    def __init__(self, name, ip):
        self.name = name
        self.ip = ip
    
    def print_name(self):
        """Next we create methods that we can use."""
        print(f"The device name is {self.name}")
    
    def print_ip(self):
        print(f"The device ip is {self.ip}")
    
    def print_everything(self):
        print(f"device name: {self.name}\ndevice ip: {self.ip}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Here we create a new Device class instance
    # We do this by passing in the required args 
    # Then we assign it to a variable named device
    device = Device("cisco", "192.168.1.1")

    # Here we print each class attribute
    print(device.name)
    print(device.ip)

    # Here we can see all attributes and methods in our device object
    print(dir(device))

    # Now call each method in our class
    device.print_name()
    device.print_ip()
    device.print_everything()