Python Inheritance

Inheritance Definition

Inheritance allows a class (child) to acquire properties and methods of another class (parent).

This promotes:

  • Code reusability
  • Hierarchy / structure
  • Cleaner and scalable programs

Explanation

  • Animal is the parent/base class.
  • Dog is the child/derived class.
  • Dog gets the speak() method without writing it again.

📝 Child gets access to both:
show() (from Parent)
display() (its own)


📝 Chain of inheritance: A → B → C
Class C inherits everything.


📝 Child receives methods of both parents.


📝 One parentMultiple children.


📝 super() is used to call parent methods/constructors.

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