Explain Inheritance in Python?

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Inheritance enables us to define a class that takes all the functionality from a parent class and allows us to add more. In this tutorial, you will learn to use inheritance in Python. Inheritance is a powerful feature in object oriented programming.

It refers to defining a new class with little or no modification to an existing class. The new class is called derived (or child) class and the one from which it inherits is called the base (or parent) class.

Python Inheritance Syntax:

class BaseClass: Body of base class class DerivedClass(BaseClass): Body of derived class

The benefits of inheritance are:

1. It represents real-world relationships well.
2. It provides reusability of a code. We don’t have to write the same code again and again. Also, it allows us to add more features to a class without modifying it.
3. It is transitive in nature, which means that if class B inherits from another class A, then all the subclasses of B would automatically inherit from class A.