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#+title: inheritance
#+author: Preston Pan
#+description: No, not the thing I stole from your grandmother.
#+options: broken-links:t
* Definition
In programming, inheritance is the adoption of attributes of a child class by that of a parent class.
For instance, in this example:
#+begin_src python :results output both
class Animal:
def __init__(self, birthday):
self.weight = weight
self.birthday = birthday
class Dog(Animal):
pass
#+end_src
The class ~~Dog~~ will have the same fields as that of animal. In general, you can think of inheritance as
taking on attributes from a node higher in the abstraction hierarchy.
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