Python supports multiple inheritance which can be scary, but the trick is to make it as much like single inheritance as possible and this is what Python does. This extract is from my new book with the ...

If single inheritance is a good idea then surely multiple inheritance is an even better idea. There is a problem, however, and it is quite a big problem – the so called diamond problem. If you allow ...

In the code above, Example and Example2 behave exactly the same way. The no-argument super() effectively fills in the class and self. If we take a slightly more complex hierarchy from part 1, we can ...