How to call a Parent Class's method from Child Class in Python?

Question

When creating a simple object hierarchy in Python, I\'d like to be able to invoke methods of the parent class from a derived class. In Perl and Java, there is a keyword for

Answer 1

Python 3 has a different and simpler syntax for calling parent method.

If Foo class inherits from Bar, then from Bar.__init__ can be invoked from Foo via super().__init__():

class Foo(Bar):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        # invoke Bar.__init__
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)