Python class = class()

Question

What exactly does this do? I’ve read that its meant to initialize the class, but I’m not completely sure.
Is it similar to importing a class from another file and then using it?

https://www.sololearn.com/learn/738/
^^^ A link to where I found NeuralNetwork = NeuralNetwork()

Answer 1

In the above example,
network = neural_network()

-means that you have defined an instance of class named network. It's there in the Python course here on SL but I understand OOP can be confusing for beginners. So here's a simple example

Consider that there is a class named Dog. Now this class refers to all dogs all over the world.
Then you do-

dog1 = Dog()
Now this makes an instance of class Dog named dog1. Now dog1 refers to a specific dog.

You can make multiple dogs
dog2 = Dog()
dog3 = Dog()

All of these will refer to single dogs which are of class Dog.

Answer 2

you are right, it is initialization but has nothing to do with import.
It is simply creating an instance of a class.

Please.. . your question is related to a lesson and better placed there in discussion section.