Introduction to Python Programming and Data Structures, 3rd Edition by Pearson

CHAPTER 12

Inheritance and Polymorphism

 

Objectives

• To define a subclass from a superclass through inheritance (§12.2).
• To override methods in a subclass (§12.3).
• To explore the object class and its methods (§12.4).
• To understand polymorphism and dynamic binding (§12.5).
• To determine whether an object is an instance of a class by using the isinstance function (§12.6).
• To design a GUI class for displaying a reusable clock (§12.7).
• To discover relationships among classes (§12.8).
• To design the Course class (§12.9).
• To design the Stack class (§12.10).
• To design the FigureCanvas class (§12.11).

12.1 Introduction

Key Point

Object-oriented ...