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Basic Example with Python to create a Module that consists of Classes and Functions

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Just a very basic example how to create a Python Module that consists of a Single Class and 2 basic functions.

Our main app will can our module to print out a word, that we pass to our first function.

The Directory Setup:

Below is a tree view of my current working directory:

$ tree
.
├── providers
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── test.py
├── README.md
└── main.py

In order to make a python file a module, we need to have a blank __init__.py file in our directory. So any files under our providers directory will be seen as modules from our main.py file.

Our Test Module:

in our providers/test.py file:

class TestClass:
    
    def word_to_return(self, word_value):
        return word_value
   
    def simple_test(self):
        data = self.word_to_return('its me!')
        return data

Then our providers/test.py file will be blank.

Our main.py, we will import our test module, instantiate our class, and call our function within the class that we instantiated:

from providers import test

test_instance = test.TestClass()
response = test_instance.simple_test()

print(response)

instead of response = test_instance.simple_test(), you could also do print(test_instance.simple_test()

Testing it out:

$ python main.py
its me!

It's very basic but will post some more topics around this in the future.

Also note, this blog is for quick posts that I come accross during my daily doings, for more details tutorials have a look at my main blog: sysadmins.co.za

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