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Types of Inheritance

Explore the five key types of inheritance in Python object-oriented programming. Understand how parent and child classes relate through single, multi-level, hierarchical, multiple, and hybrid inheritance. Gain the skills to implement these inheritance types using practical code examples to improve code reusability and structure.

Based upon parent classes and child classes, there exists the following five types of inheritance:

  1. Single
  2. Multi-level
  3. Hierarchical
  4. Multiple
  5. Hybrid

Single inheritance

In single inheritance, there is only a single class extending from another class. We can take the example of the Vehicle class as the parent class, and the ...