Multiple Inheritance and Mixins

This talk is an introduction to multiple inheritance in Python, and how to extend the API of classes via the mixin pattern. It touches on inheritance, superclasses, and a couple of real-world examples to illustrate its use.

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1. Dane Hillard @easyaspython Lead Web Application Developer, ITHAKA
2. I’m writing a book 40% off: ctwpycaribbean19
3. Multiple Inheritance and Mixins
9. __init__
11. super
13. Multiple inheritance
17. Method resolution order
21. Mule.__mro__
23. Mixins
26. Things to remember
27. MRO is king
28. Keep mixins small
29. Cooperative Inheritance
30. Questions?
31. A: Mixins are for extending an API