Adding extra functionality to parent class method without changing its name [duplicate]

Answer 1

This is what the super function does.

class Child(Parent):

    def __init__(self):
        super(Child, self).__init__()

    def method_parent(self):
        super(Child, self).method_parent()
        print "Child"

In Python 3, you can call super without the arguments, like super().method_parent()