Python Class Attributes: An Overly Thorough Guide

This article is originally published at Toptal.

I had a programming interview recently, a phone-screen in which we used a collaborative text editor.

I was asked to implement a certain API, and chose to do so in Python. Abstracting away the problem statement, let’s say I needed a class whose instances stored some 

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