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Arcee Palabrica
8,100 PointsNeed more explanation on setting super before setting self.sneaky
Hi guys I'm a little bit confused at the super and self.sneaky part.
At 1:54 Kenneth Love mentioned that setting self.sneaky before super could override what we want to set.. I kinda got lost in that part.. can anyone explain further what it means? (1) why we set super first then self.sneaky and (2)why don't we just set sneaky in the kwargs when we initialize Thief?
1 Answer
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherIf you set self.sneaky = True before you use super(), if the super/parent class also sets self.sneaky, that class's value will be used, not yours.
David Bath
25,940 PointsDavid Bath
25,940 PointsI think what he was saying is that the value of sneaky could be overridden by a value passed into **kwargs when the super class gets called. Let's say you always want the sneaky attribute to be True for Thief. Someone instantiating Thief could pass sneaky = False in through the **kwargs, and if super() is called after making sneaky = True, then sneaky will end up being False. But if super() is called first, even if sneaky is passed in as False, then the Thief class would be overriding that value to True.