Class inheritance in Python 3.7 dataclasses

Question

I\'m currently trying my hands on the new dataclass constructions introduced in Python 3.7. I am currently stuck on trying to do some inheritance of a parent class. It looks

Answer 1

The approach below deals with this problem while using pure python dataclasses and without much boilerplate code.

The ugly_init: dataclasses.InitVar[bool] serves as a pseudo-field just to help us do initialization and will be lost once the instance is created. While ugly: bool = field(init=False) is an instance member which will not be initialized by __init__ method but can be alternatively initialized using __post_init__ method (you can find more here.).

from dataclasses import dataclass, field

@dataclass
class Parent:
    name: str
    age: int
    ugly: bool = field(init=False)
    ugly_init: dataclasses.InitVar[bool]

    def __post_init__(self, ugly_init: bool):
        self.ugly = ugly_init

    def print_name(self):
        print(self.name)

    def print_age(self):
        print(self.age)

    def print_id(self):
        print(f'The Name is {self.name} and {self.name} is {self.age} year old')

@dataclass
class Child(Parent):
    school: str

jack = Parent('jack snr', 32, ugly_init=True)
jack_son = Child('jack jnr', 12, school='havard', ugly_init=True)

jack.print_id()
jack_son.print_id()