2a. Understanding Inheritance

Question 1

What does inheritance do?

Answer 1

Inheritance defines a way for a given class to inherit attributes and methods from one or more base classes.

Question 2

Why does inheritance make easy?

Answer 2

Inheritance makes it easy to centralise common functionality and data in one place instead of having it spread out and duplicated across multiple classes.

Question 3

What syntax does a class use to inherit another?

Answer 3

The name of the class to be inherited in parentheses as a postfix.

eg. class Child(Parent):

Question 4

How does a subclass access its parent’s attributes and methods?

Answer 4

By using a dot notation after calling the super function.

eg. super().attribute