Hands-On Enterprise Application Development with Python

Inheritance

Inheritance is a way through which we create hierarchies in the objects, going from the most general to the most specific. A class that usually forms the base for another class is also known as a base class, whereas a class that inherits from a base class is known as a child class. For example, if a class B derives from class A, then we will say that class B is a child class of class A.

Just like C++, Python supports the concept of both multiple and multilevel inheritance, but does not support the use of access modifiers while inheriting in a class that C++ supports.

Let's take a look at how inheritance can be achieved in Python by trying to model how a new request will look in our BugZot application. The following snippet gives ...