Super Function in Python
- A super() indicates the immediate parent of actual class. Just like `self` which is not a keyword, but to access parent.
- Before `super`, the method was to explicitly use the type of master as specifier and to add `self` on function signature.
In Python, super() built-in has two major use cases:
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- Allows us to avoid using base class explicitly
- Working with Multiple Inheritance
Example :
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- These classes have all the same capabilities like as its parent, dict, but it extends the __setitem__ method to create log entries whenever a key is updated. After creating a log entry, method uses super() to delegate the work for essentially updating the dictionary with the key or value pair.
- Before super() was presented, it have hardwired the call among dict.__setitem__(key, value and self). In any case, super() is improved since it is computed indirect reference.
