Python "magic" methods - part 1

Java was the first language I used professionally and is the scale by which I measure other languages I learned afterward. It's an OOP statically-typed language. Hence, Python feels a bit weird because of its dynamic typing approach.

For example, Object offers methods equals(), hashCode(), and toString(). Because all other classes inherit from Object, directly or indirectly, all objects have these methods by definition.

Conversely, Python was not initially built on OOP principles and is dynamically …

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