Encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism

[Lipska the Kat]

Pythoners

Python 2.7.3
Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS

I've been taking a brief look at Python.

 From the tutorial documentation I get the following

'Python is an easy to learn, powerful programming language. It has 
efficient high-level data structures and a simple but effective approach 
to object-oriented programming'.

I was expecting (hoping) to see in depth documentation relating to Class 
construction, extension mechanisms and runtime polymorphism.

What I actually get is a confusion of Classes, modules, scripts and 
whatever else.

Is Python truly OO or is it just one way to use the language. I see some 
documentation relating to classes but nothing on instantiation .. in 
fact the documentation appears to say that classes are used in a static 
way e.g ClassName.method(), and command line scripting is really outside 
the scope of other OO languages I have experienced.

Is there a previous discussion in the group that I could read.

Many thanks

Lipska

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