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

In Python 2, I didn't have a lot luck with super(). I used the answer from jimifiki on this SO thread how to refer to a parent method in python?. Then, I added my own little twist to it, which I think is an improvement in usability (Especially if you have long class names).

Define the base class in one module:

 # myA.py

class A():     
    def foo( self ):
        print "foo"

Then import the class into another modules as parent:

# myB.py

from myA import A as parent

class B( parent ):
    def foo( self ):
        parent.foo( self )   # calls 'A.foo()'