Classes can be very useful for storing complicated objects with their own methods and variables. Defining a class is much like defining a function, but we use the class keyword instead. We also use the word object in parentheses because we want our classes to inherit the object class. This means that our class has all the properties of an object, which is the simplest, most basic class. Later we’ll see that classes can inherit other, more complicated classes. An empty class would look like this:

class ClassName(object):
  # class statements go here