Python supports multiple inheritance which can be scary, but before you master it you have to know how single inheritance works - no less scary! This extract is from my new book published on July 9th ...

The idea is that inheritance is a way to express an "is a" relationship; in the above, Circle is an Ellipse, which is a Shape, thus, transitively, Circle is also a Shape. Implicitly, Shape is an ...

Python supports multiple inheritance which can be scary, but the trick is to make it as much like single inheritance as possible and this is what Python does. This extract is from my new book with the ...