I am currently down the rabbit hole trying to understand metaclasses and as such went back to refresh my understanding of super() and type. While refreshing I came across a geeksforgeeks super() article and it had a rather weird example. here is the example class Animals: # Initializing constructor def __init__(self): self.legs = 4 self.domestic = True self.tail = True self.mammals = True def isMammal(self): if self.mammals: print("It is a mammal.") def isDomestic(self): if self.domestic: print("It is a domestic animal.") class Dogs(Animals): def __init__(self): super().__init__() def isMammal(self): super().isMammal() <- Why do this? I understand that when inheriting from a parent class, the functions like __init__ must be called to be initialized, hence the super().__init__() but why do this also in the function? I thought that functions were inherited. Is this so that we can run the parent function along with modifications? Why not call a parent function, within a new function? def mammal_can_dance(self): self.isMammal() print("and can dance") Continue reading...
