Inheritance in Python

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 10:10 pm, id23092 at gmail.com wrote:

> I do not quite understand how inheritance works in Python.
[...]

> class mainCL():
>      def __init__(self):
>          self.path1 = "/a"
>          self.path2 = "/b"
> 
> class secondCL(mainCL):
>      def __init__(newID):
>          self.pathID = self.path2+"/id"+str(newID)

secondCL over-rides the __init__ method of mainCL and prevents it from
running.

If you want to overload a method, you have to ensure that the superclass
method is called. Do this instead:

class secondCL(mainCL):
    def __init__(self, newID):
        super().__init__(newID)
        self.pathID = self.path2 + "/id" + str(newID)



-- 
Steve
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