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Super Method

Explore how to use the super method in Python to access and call methods from a parent class within a child class. Understand how super simplifies inheritance, especially with multiple levels or multiple inheritance, making your code cleaner and easier to maintain.

Introduction

As we discussed before, you can access the constructor and methods of the parent class in the child class using

ParentClassName.__init__(self, methodParameter)

and

ParentClassName.methodName(self, methodParameter)

respectively.

This method tends to get confusing when the hierarchy has multiple levels because you have to remember the exact names of the parent classes and where to use them. An easier way to do this is by using the super() method.

The built-in ...