Inheritance

What You’ll Learn

Inheritance allows us to define a class that inherits all the methods and properties from another class.

Parent and Child Classes

• Parent class is the class being inherited from, also called base class.
• Child class is the class that inherits from another class, also called derived class.

# Parent Class
class Animal:
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name

    def eat(self):
        print(f"{self.name} is eating.")

# Child Class inherits from Animal
class Dog(Animal):
    def bark(self):
        print("Woof!")

my_dog = Dog("Buddy")
my_dog.eat()  # Inherited from Animal
my_dog.bark() # Specific to Dog

The super() Function

Python also has a super() function that will make the child class inherit all the methods and properties from its parent.

class Dog(Animal):
    def __init__(self, name, breed):
        super().__init__(name) # Calls the Animal __init__
        self.breed = breed