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Inheritance

The document explains the concept of inheritance in Python, demonstrating how child classes can inherit properties and methods from parent classes. It highlights the importance of calling the parent class's __init__ method using super() to access inherited attributes. Additionally, it covers multiple inheritance with an example of class C inheriting from both classes A and B.

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Inheritance

The document explains the concept of inheritance in Python, demonstrating how child classes can inherit properties and methods from parent classes. It highlights the importance of calling the parent class's __init__ method using super() to access inherited attributes. Additionally, it covers multiple inheritance with an example of class C inheriting from both classes A and B.

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Inheritance

class Parent:
def __init__(self):
print("parent class")

class child(Parent):
def __init__(self):
print("child class")

# Start class names with capital lettes or we use camel case


class SchoolMember:
def __init__(self, name):
[Link] = name

class Student(SchoolMember): # inheriting parent class


def __init__(self, name, grade):
[Link] = grade

class Staff(SchoolMember):
def __init__(self, name, salary):
[Link] = salary

class Teacher(Staff):
def __init__(self, name, salary, subject):
[Link] = subject

above example displays inheritence tree like this

s1 = Student("Krishna", "A")

type(s1)

__main__.Student

[Link]

'A'

[Link] # class inherited still cannot use the properties


---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-14-58cbae705711> in <cell line: 1>()
----> 1 [Link] # class inherited still cannot use the properties

AttributeError: 'Student' object has no attribute 'name'

problem is we never called the __init__() function of the parent class inside the child.

we can use super() method to directly call the methods of parent class

# Start class names with capital lettes or we use camel case


class SchoolMember:
def __init__(self, name):
[Link] = name

class Student(SchoolMember):
def __init__(self, name, grade):
# SchoolMember.__init__(self, name)
super().__init__(name)
# super automatically corresponds to the direct parent class
[Link] = grade

class Staff(SchoolMember):
def __init__(self, name, salary):
super().__init__(name)
[Link] = salary

class Teacher(Staff):
def __init__(self, name, salary, subject):
super().__init__(name, salary)
[Link] = subject

s1 = Student("Sharath", "A")

t1 = Teacher("Bipin", 10, "Python")

[Link], [Link], [Link]

('Bipin', 10, 'Python')

keyboard_arrow_down Multiple Inheritence


class A:
def __init__(self, a):
self.a = a

class B:
def __init__(self, b):
self.b = b

# C inherits from both A and B


class C(A, B):
def __init__(self, a, b, c):

A.__init__(self, a)
B.__init__(self, b)
self.c = c

c1 = C(1,2,3)

c1.c

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