Track 11 · Lesson 8 of 12

Overriding and super()

Replace or extend inherited behaviour in a subclass, call the parent with super(), and let different classes answer the same method call.

You will be able to

• Override an inherited method to change its behaviour in a subclass
• Write a subclass __init__ that calls super().__init__() before adding its own attributes
• Extend a parent method with super().method() instead of copying its code
• Use polymorphism: call the same method on objects of different classes