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Intro Inheritance

Inheritance allows a class to acquire features from an existing class, resembling a parent-child relationship. It promotes code reusability and every class in Python inherits from the object class. For example, a cuboid can access features of a rectangle due to their similarities.

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Intro Inheritance

Inheritance allows a class to acquire features from an existing class, resembling a parent-child relationship. It promotes code reusability and every class in Python inherits from the object class. For example, a cuboid can access features of a rectangle due to their similarities.

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Introduction to Inheritance

• Inheritance is acquiring features in a class from an existing class


• Inheritance is like parent - child relation , a child class can have all of its parent
features plus his own features

• The main advantage of Inheritance is reusability of code


• Every class in python directly or indirectly is inheriting from object class
• Suppose you want to access features of rectangle in cuboid as they are almost
same then you can do the following
Rectangle Cuboid

height
breath

length
length
breath

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