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HI! I’m not asking for help with the project, just clarification on what the .super() method does please.

I used it because that’s what we did for the subclass in the vector space lesson, but I don’t really understand what it’s doing. I’ve searched online and see things like “.super() allows you to call methods from the parent class” but that’s not very specific.

I guess my question is:
I thought defining a subclass meant that subclass automatically inherited the parent class’s methods, and we only need to add new methods. For example:

class Subclass(Parentclass)
def new_method… etc

What does .super() add to this?

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class Square(Rectangle):
    def __init__(self, side):
        super().__init__(width=side, height=side)

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Build a Polygon Area Calculator Project - Build a Polygon Area Calculator Project

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Hi @laserlemon

Here is an article you may find of interest.

Happy coding

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