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:: A class is a type, a description of a thing, the definition of what it should look like (data attributes) and what we can do about it (function attributes).
:: An object is an instance of a class, an individual entity described by a class, a specific stuff with properties (aka attributes) defined by a class.
:: Type The exact definition of the type and what you would expect to store in objects of that type is up to you - the programmer. You would want to design your classes so that you can manage data in your program/script/application as easily as possible.
:: A few points about the mechanics of implementing classes:
:::* A class name typically starts with a capital letter, and object names should start with a lowercase letter.
==Reference==
:* Time object code : from '''Think Python''' by Allen B. Downey: [http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython2/html/thinkpython2017.html Chapter 16] and [http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython2/html/thinkpython2018.html Chapter 17]:* Date Data object : [https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#special-method-names special method name]
=Investigation I: Objects and Functions=
:3. Please study the output of the interactive shell session above and note that in order to call the format_time() function, we have to prefix it with the class name '''Time''' as it is under the class definition in lab7d.py. Also note that format_time() is now a method of the time object '''t1'''.
:4. You may also notice that when we called the print() function with our time object t1, the print function only showed that it is an Time object and its memory location, but did not display its properties (i.e. data attributes) like the values of its hour, minute, and second attributes.
:5. Try to find out how to test the valid_datevalid_time(), change_time() functions to make sure they all work.
:6. Download the checking script and check your work. Enter the following commands from the bash shell.<source lang="bash">
cd ~/ops435/lab7/
