A subclass is a class that describes the members of a particular subset of the original set. They share many of characteristics of the main class, but may have properties or methods that are unique to …

Apr 23, 2010 · The reason for this is because the subclass could have some weird methods that the superclass doesn't have. In general, if you want to instantiate a class to call something in its …

A subclass does not inherit the private members of its parent class. However, if the superclass has public or protected methods for accessing its private fields, these can also be used by the subclass.

Is there any technical difference between a class which inherits from another class and a class which is a subclass of it? What's the difference between A and B in the following code: A) public c...

Mar 24, 2013 · SubClass obj = new SubClass(); public methods defined in SubClass are also accessible along with the SuperClass public methods. Object created in both cases is the same. Ex:

Dec 14, 2017 · Therefore while the subclass can pass anytime you need a type of the parent class, the type of the parent class should be rejected if you need the type of the subclass. If you combine this …

I want to allow type hinting using Python 3 to accept sub classes of a certain class. E.g.:

Jul 30, 2017 · Background __init_subclass__ was introduced as an alternative to creating metaclasses. Here is a 2-minute summary of PEP 487 in a talk by one of the core developers, Brett Cannon. …

Jan 10, 2019 · Bar is obviously a direct subclass of Foo. However, since Foo in turn is a direct subclass of Object, this makes Bar transitively an indirect subclass of Object. And, if you think about it a bit: …

Oct 1, 2014 · There is no need to have specific subclasses for every person. You're right, those should be instances instead. Goal of subclasses: to extend parent classes Subclasses are used to extend …