Learn Programming in Python with Cody Jackson

Inheritance

Inheritance is one of the most powerful aspects of classes. First off, classes allow you to modify a program without really making changes to it. To elaborate, by making a subclass through inheritance, you can change the behavior of the program by simply adding new components to it rather than rewriting the existing components.

As we've seen, an instance of a class inherits the attributes of that class. However, classes can also inherit attributes from other classes. Hence, a generic superclass (also known as a parent) can be specialized through subclasses (also called children), since the children classes inherit their general properties from the parent class. The subclasses can override the logic in a superclass, allowing you ...