Oop for datascientist

I have been learning python for quite some time now and I’m wondering for essential is oop.

I familiar with python module such as numpy, sklearn, pandas, tensorflow etc. now never gave much attention to oop.

The moment I see class __init__ self in a code I just skip over it. I seem so convoluted, especially since all of the data manipulation I can do with the simple def, for, while etc.

Should I learnt oop? If yes what is …

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