[Tutor] Super In tkinter class inheritance

[Prasad, Ramit]

>> class ChooseDestinationWindow(Frame): def __init__(self,master):
>>super(ChooseDestinationWindow,self).__init_
_(master)

>What exactly does this super method since I have seen it numerous
>times before and as far as I can see it is not anything the user
>created himself in the class?

This has to do a lot with inheritance in object-oriented programming. 
If you are not aware of this, you might want to read some basics on that.
The gist of the reason to call super is that the TKinter (or whatever base class)
does some work in the background to create a "Frame" type, so if you are inheriting
from the Frame class, you still (normally) want the Frame class to behave 
normally with very specific deviations. For instance, you may want to setup 
the Frame but (like an Office-type application) have it ask the user to save when 
the app tries to close. You use super in a function to call the behavior 
of the base class so that you do not need to duplicate the code. It is
a fairly language-agnostic OOP idea.

Ramit


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