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Python

Nicholas Gaerlan
Nicholas Gaerlan
9,501 Points
Posted by Nicholas Gaerlan
Nicholas Gaerlan
9,501 Points

Why do you need to explicitly provide an argument when **kwargs takes any key, value pair?

In the example for the video, why can't you still create a "Thief" with the same arguments

person = Thief("Bob", sneaky=False, hair_style = "sad mullet")

without overriding the parent class __init__ method? As long as a string for a name variable is declared first, then as long as every following element is a "key, value" pair or "var = [data-type]", wouldn't your Thief end up inheriting that attribute?

So if in this case, without overriding the parent method with the "super()" call, if I just initialized a Theif with the arguments ("Bob", sneaky = False) then I understand this to happen:

  1. A Theif is created inheriting all the Parent methods and attributes
  2. Since the parent accepts all key, value pairs and creates attributes from them, then the Thief should have a sneaky = False attribute because I used that argument.

I see a potential conflict in that the sub-class of Thief sets it's attribute to "True" by default, so is that it? I guess I'd like to know the order or sequence of events so that I understand exactly when things are created and overridden.