Katt wrote:
As I am a beginner I am constantly assimilating new python code and vocabulary
associated with it.
Could someone please explain to me what a super class is, its importance and
what level of python programming it is(beginner,intermediate,advanced
programming technique)?
This would greatly help me decide whether to try and wrap my brain around it or
just skip the message.
Thank you in advance,
Katt
It's an object oriented thing, and as such, "advanced programming." (IMHO)
You use objects all the time in Python (int, string, def) , but building
hierarchies of complex objects is an advanced technique. The notion
here is one of inheritance. You write a class like the following:
class Myclass(object):
description...
And this class derives from object, which is more-or-less the simplest
class of all. So object is the base class, and Myclass is the
subclass. If all classes were derived from object, we'd be done. But
you can also derive from a different class, and your code, and the code
of your users, can get at the base class without needing to know what
behavior comes from your sub class and which comes from the base. The
complexity comes when one subclass derives from nested base classes, or
from a list of base classes, or both.
Superclass is a synonym for base class. And super() is a mechanism you
can use to specify one of your base classes without knowing all the
classes that might be up there.
Incidentally, child class is a synonym for sub class as well.
DaveA
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