Inheritance in OOP

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What is the primary purpose of inheritance in object-oriented programming?

To create a hierarchy of classes that share properties and methods

What is the term for the class being inherited from?

Parent class

What type of relationship does inheritance represent?

Is-a relationship

What is a benefit of using inheritance in programming?

It provides reusability of code

What happens when a child class inherits from a parent class?

The child class gains all the attributes and methods of the parent class

What is the term for the class that inherits from another class?

Derived class

What will be the output of calling the Vehicle_info method on an object of the SportsCar class?

Inside Vehicle class

Which type of inheritance is depicted when a SportsCar class is derived from a single base class Car, which in turn is derived from another base class Vehicle?

Multilevel inheritance

What is Hybrid inheritance?

Combination of more than one type of inheritance

What does it mean when instance variables of the parent class are declared as private?

They cannot be accessed outside the parent class

What error will be encountered in the given code snippet?

AttributeError because '__d' is a private variable

What is method overriding in inheritance?

Defining a method in the derived class with the same name and parameters as in the base class, but with different functionality

Which type of inheritance allows for multiple derived classes from a single base class?

Hierarchical inheritance

How is a private instance variable defined in a Python class?

Using two underscores before the variable name

What does the super() function do in the context of the Student class?

It initializes the parent class properties.

Which of these correctly defines a new attribute specific to the Student class?

self.graduationyear = 2019 in the init method

How does the Student class inherit from the Person class?

Using class Student(Person):

What is single inheritance?

When a child class inherits from only one parent class.

Which method can be used to override the printname method in the Student class?

def printname(self):

If you want to add a method exclusive to the Student class, where should it be defined?

Within the Student class

Understand the concept of inheritance in object-oriented programming, where a class derives properties and methods from another class.

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