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

There's a super() in Python too. It's a bit wonky, because of Python's old- and new-style classes, but is quite commonly used e.g. in constructors:

class Foo(Bar):
    def __init__(self):
        super(Foo, self).__init__()
        self.baz = 5