Instead of declaring an object p = Person() and then setting the name p.name = "Maria", we can use class constructors.

class Person:
  def __init__(self, new_name):
    self.name = new_name

p = Person("Elliot")
print(p.name) # output: Elliot

This constructs an object p of class Person. Upon construction, the method __init__, if defined, is called automatically. In this case, the name will be set to Elliot.