Object creation patterns in Python: Static factory methods

Posted on Tue 21 May 2024 in Python • Tagged with python, object-oriented-programming, design-patterns

The basic way to create and initialize an object in Python is using the default constructor, defined as the __init__() method:

class MyClass:
    def __init__(self, x: float) -> None:
        self.x: float = x
        print(f"created an object with x = {x}")


obj = MyClass(5)

Usually, initial values of instance variables …


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