The MAGIC method in Python

Key Takeaways

Dunder or magic methods now Dunder stands for double underscore and they look something like this double underscore a nit and then double underscore now you've probably seen this method before if you've done object-oriented programming in Python but there are ton of other ones and these are reserved or special methods in Python that map to some kind of behavior so in the case of a nit you probably know what this does it's used to construct or create a new object so when we Define this init method we're defining what we want to happen when a new instance of an object is created here look at this quick example we have a rectangle we Define some nit and this now means that when I Define something like rect and I pass values 2 and three we're going to implicitly call this a nit function or this init method and we're going to create or initialize the object okay so this double underscore method maps to the behavior when we create or construct initialize whatever you want to call a brand new object