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18: Inheritance

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The language feature most often associated with object-oriented programming is inheritance. Inheritance is the ability to define a new class that is a modified version of an existing class. In this chapter I demonstrate inheritance using classes that represent playing cards, decks of cards, and poker hands.

If you don’t play poker, you can read about it at http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker, but you don’t have to; I’ll tell you what you need to know for the exercises.

Code examples from this chapter are available from http://thinkpython2.com/code/Card.py.


This page titled 18: Inheritance is shared under a CC BY-NC 3.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Allen B. Downey (Green Tea Press) via source content that was edited to the style and standards of the LibreTexts platform.

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