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Eddy Hood
10,154 PointsHow is Super() meeting the DRY requirement? It seems to add more work.
I was all excited about inheritance until we got to super(). How is this saving us time and code if we have to now create two init methods in a subclass?
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doesitmatter
12,885 PointsSure it would violate the DRY principle if we had to rewrite the entire __init__ of the super class, however we don't, we simply point to it, passing the arguments or kwargs it needs:
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
You shouldn't see the initialization of the super class as repeating yourself, instead look at it like setting the foundation on which your sub-class will be built.