Nov 3, 2015 · When another class subclasses the class you wrote, it could also be inheriting from other classes. And those classes could have an __init__ that comes after this __init__ based …

Aug 29, 2012 · Here we have __init__, a typical initializer of Python class instances, which receives arguments as a typical instance method, having the first non-optional argument (self) …

Sep 26, 2008 · What is the difference between a method decorated with @staticmethod and one decorated with @classmethod?

An @ symbol at the beginning of a line is used for class and function decorators: PEP 318: Decorators Python Decorators - Python Wiki The most common Python decorators are: …

Feb 23, 2009 · In Python 2, we were required to call super like this with the defining class's name and self, but we'll avoid this from now on because it's redundant, slower (due to the name …

A class (instance) method has to be aware of it's parent (and parent properties) so you need to pass the method a reference to the parent class (as self). It's just one less implicit rule that you …

Double Underscore (Name Mangling) From the Python docs: Any identifier of the form __spam (at least two leading underscores, at most one trailing underscore) is textually replaced with …

Sep 16, 2008 · See what the Python tutorial has to say on the subject of classes and class objects. @Steve Johnson has already answered regarding static methods, also documented …

Jun 10, 2020 · This process is the same as Python asking a class what to do by calling __getattr__ when you reference one of its attributes by doing myclass.attribute. A metaclass …

It's called a "class attribute", as opposed to "instance attributes" that are colour or legs above. Now, to something less canine and more programming-related. As I write below, class to add …