The benefits of super()
in single-inheritance are minimal — mostly, you don’t have to hard-code the name of the base class into every method that uses its parent methods.
However, it’s almost impossible to use multiple-inheritance without super()
. This includes common idioms like mixins, interfaces, abstract classes, etc. This extends to code that later extends yours. If somebody later wanted to write a class that extended Child
and a mixin, their code would not work properly.
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