There should only be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it”, says the Zen of Python. Yet there are areas where even seasoned programmers debate what the right or wrong way to do things ...

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In the code above, Example and Example2 behave exactly the same way. The no-argument super() effectively fills in the class and self. If we take a slightly more complex hierarchy from part 1, we can ...