Python is an object-oriented programming language. OOP is a programming paradigm that provides a means of structuring programs so that properties and behaviors are bundled into individual objects. For instance, an object could represent a person with properties like a name, age, and address and behaviors such as walking, talking, breathing, and running. Object-oriented programming is an approach for modeling concrete, real-world things, like cars, as well as relations between things, like companies and employees, students and teachers, and so on. OOP models real-world entities as software objects that have some data associated with them and can perform certain functions.