How to call a Parent Class's method from Child Class in Python?

Question

When creating a simple object hierarchy in Python, I\'d like to be able to invoke methods of the parent class from a derived class. In Perl and Java, there is a keyword for

Answer 1

If you don't know how many arguments you might get, and want to pass them all through to the child as well:

class Foo(bar)
    def baz(self, arg, *args, **kwargs):
        # ... Do your thing
        return super(Foo, self).baz(arg, *args, **kwargs)

(From: Python - Cleanest way to override __init__ where an optional kwarg must be used after the super() call?)