Editing Python (programming language) (section)

===Methods===
[[Method (computer programming)|Methods]] of objects are functions attached to the object's class; the syntax for normal methods and functions, {{code|lang=python|code=instance.method(argument)}}, is [[syntactic sugar]] for {{code|lang=python|code=Class.method(instance, argument)}}. Python methods have an explicit <code>[[this (computer programming)|self]]</code> parameter to access [[instance data]], in contrast to the implicit self (or <code>this</code>) parameter in some object-oriented programming languages (e.g., [[C++]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[Objective-C]], [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]]).<ref name="AutoNT-61"/> Python also provides methods, often called ''dunder methods'' (because their names begin and end with double underscores); these methods allow user-defined classes to modify how they are handled by native operations including length, comparison, [[arithmetic operations|arithmetic]], and type conversion.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sweigart |first1=Al |title=Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python: Best Practices for Writing Clean Code |year=2020 |publisher=No Starch Press |isbn=978-1-59327-966-0 |page=322 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7GUKEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA322 |language=en |access-date=7 July 2021 |archive-date=13 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813194312/https://books.google.com/books?id=7GUKEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA322 |url-status=live}}</ref>