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Python Object-Oriented Python Inheritance Super!

Posted by mark babyby
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mark babyby
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 367 Points

How to add super to add_item method

class Inventory: def init(self): self.slots = []

def add_item(self, item):
    self.slots.append(item)

class SortedInventory(Inventory): def add_item(self, item): super().add_item(self,item): pass

inventory.py 
class Inventory:
    def __init__(self):
        self.slots = []

    def add_item(self, item):
        self.slots.append(item)

class SortedInventory(Inventory):
    def add_item(self, item):
       super().add_item(self,item):
            pass

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

You're close, but:

  • when you call the super's "add_item", you don't need to pass "self" as an argument
  • the line calling the super's "add_item" should not have a colon at the end
  • you don't need "pass" anymore now that you have a method
mark babyby
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mark babyby
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 367 Points

Thank you for your helpful answer but why don't we need to pass self as an argument in super

Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Here's a link that may shed some light on that for you.

https://www.codecademy.com/forum_questions/547e29f79c4e9d958e0049db

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36557009/explicit-passing-of-self-when-calling-super-classs-init-in-python

It's not required to pass the self parameter when calling super(). My understanding of this is that if you don't want to refer to the parent class, you wouldn't pass self to super.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

It's just like any other method call, you don't explicitly pass "self", but the system provides it to the method as the first parameter implicitly.

mark babyby
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mark babyby
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 367 Points

thank you