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The Python Apprentice

By : Robert Smallshire, Austin Bingham
Book Image

The Python Apprentice

By: Robert Smallshire, Austin Bingham

Overview of this book

Experienced programmers want to know how to enhance their craft and we want to help them start as apprentices with Python. We know that before mastering Python you need to learn the culture and the tools to become a productive member of any Python project. Our goal with this book is to give you a practical and thorough introduction to Python programming, providing you with the insight and technical craftsmanship you need to be a productive member of any Python project. Python is a big language, and it’s not our intention with this book to cover everything there is to know. We just want to make sure that you, as the developer, know the tools, basic idioms and of course the ins and outs of the language, the standard library and other modules to be able to jump into most projects.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
12
Afterword – Just the Beginning

Adding a second class


One of the things we'd like to do with our flight is accept seat bookings. To do that we need to know the seating layout, and for that we need to know the type of aircraft. Let's make a second class to model different kinds of aircraft:

class Aircraft:

    def __init__(self, registration, model, num_rows,   
                 num_seats_per_row):
        self._registration = registration
        self._model = model
        self._num_rows = num_rows
        self._num_seats_per_row = num_seats_per_row

    def registration(self):
        return self._registration

    def model(self):
        return self._model

The initializer creates four attributes for the aircraft: registration number, a model name, the number of rows of seats, and the number of seats per row. In a production code scenario we could validate these arguments to ensure, for example, that the number of rows is not negative.

This is straightforward enough, but for the seating plan we'd like something a little...