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The __init__() method permits a great deal of latitude in providing the initial values for an object. In the case of an immutable object, this is the essential definition of the instance, and clarity becomes very important.

Initialization is the first big step in an object's life; every object must be initialized properly to work properly.

Because there are so many ways to provide argument values to __init__(), there is a vast array of use cases for object creation.

We can see that a class is an object of the class named type and that the base class for our new class is the class named object.

We initialize an object by implementing the __init__() method. When an object is created, Python first creates an empty object and then calls the __init__() method for that new object. This method function generally creates the object's instance variables and performs any other one-time processing.

For many types, this function makes an attempt to return a string that would yield an object with the same value when passed to eval().

The Model: This consists of various representations of the data your application knows about.
The View: This is made up of several representations of the data that will be displayed to your users.
The Controller: This is the part of the application that will handle user interactions. It's a bridge between the model and the view.

The idea behind MVC is to decouple the View from the Model. The model must be self-contained and ignorant of the UI.

Its role is to control actions available to the end user, as well as routing through the different views of the application.

In such a simple application, there is no need to worry about the structure of code