CompSci E214 - Slide 10 - Designing Data types

Describe encapsulation

Describe python’s enforcement of encapsulation

Describe Immutability

Describe the advantages and disadvantages of immutability

Describe an issue with immutability regarding addresses and describe a solution

Describe python’s tuple

Describe polymorphism

Describe operator overloading and state the special methods for:

• sum

• difference

• product

• power

• quotient

• div

• mod

• positive

• negative

Describe equality testing

Describe hashing

State the special methods for the following operations:

• less than

• less than or equal to

• greater than

• greater than or equal to

State the special methods for the following built in functions:

• len

• float

• int

• str

• abs

• hash

• iter

Describe inheritance