12. Multiple Inheritance: Example

By Bernd Klein. Last modified: 24 Mar 2024.

Robot Classes

This chapter of our tutorial is meant to deepen the understanding of multiple inheritance that the reader has built up in our previous chapter. We will provide a further extentive example for this important object oriented principle of the programming language Python. We will use a variation of our Robot class as the superclass. We will also summarize some other important aspects of object orientation with Python like properties. We will also work out the differences between overwriting, overloading and overriding.

This example has grown during my onsite Python training classes, because I urgently needed simple and easy to understand examples of subclassing and above all one for multiple inheritance.

Starting from the superclass Robot we will derive two classes: A FightingRobot class and a NursingRobot class.

Finally we will define a 'combination' of both the FightingRobot class and the NursingRobot class, i.e. we will implement a class FightingNurseRobot, which will inherit both from FightingRobot