Feb 23, 2009 · Just a heads up... with Python 2.7, and I believe ever since super() was introduced in version 2.2, you can only call super() if one of the parents inherit from a class that eventually …

You can – and should, of course, play around with the example, add super() calls, see what happens, and gain a deeper understanding of Python's inheritance model.

Python (until version 3) supports "old-style" and new-style classes. New-style classes are derived from object and are what you are using, and invoke their base class through super(), e.g.

Nov 3, 2015 · Without super you would likely hard-code the parent of the class you're writing (like the example does). This would mean that you would not call the next __init__ in the MRO, and …

Jan 23, 2012 · So I was following Python's Super Considered Harmful, and went to test out his examples. However, Example 1-3, which is supposed to show the correct way of calling super …

Feb 1, 2020 · If you override the __init__ method of the superclass, then the __init__ method of the subclass needs to explicitly call it if that is the intended behavior, yes. Your mental model …

Feb 4, 2022 · The Python super () method lets you access methods from a parent class from within a child class. In other words this will work only if you are working in a child class …

super has a lesser benefit of reducing requires changes if you rename or change the base class. In python 3, the arguments to super are optional, so you can just do super().__init__().

Sep 10, 2022 · I found the issue where was conversation about an explict call of parent's __post_init__ method using super(), but if I try this: from dataclasses import dataclass …

Sep 6, 2022 · Understanding difference between parent class init () and super.__init__ Asked 3 years, 2 months ago Modified 3 years, 2 months ago Viewed 3k times