I'm working through the book Python Crash Course 2nd Edition, and I did what they outlined, but they did something that runs a warning in VS code (Useless parent or super() delegation in method '__init__'). They don't go over how to fix it, and I don't think it does anything (please tell me whether it does or not), but I'd like to not have the message, and I don't want to have the same thing happen in the future.
Here is the code for the child class:
class ElectricCar(Car):
"""A child class of the parent Car, specific to electric cars."""
def __init__(self, make, model, year):
"""Initialize attributes of the parent class."""
super().__init__(make, model, year)
Here is the code for the parent class, if it's needed:
class Car:
"""A class to represent a car."""
def __init__(self, make, model, year):
"""Initialize attributes to describe a car."""
self.make = make
self.model = model
self.year = year
self.odometer_reading = 0
def get_descriptive_name(self):
"""Return a neatly formatted descriptive name."""
long_name = f"{self.year} {self.make} {self.model}"
return long_name.title()
def read_odometer(self):
"""Print a statement showing the car's mileage."""
print(f"This car has {self.odometer_reading} miles on it.")
Thanks for any and all help.
P.S. I apologise if the code blocks don't look like code. I clicked on the 'Code block' button when the code was selected, but while viewing, it didn't have syntax highlighting (please tell me whether I did it correctly or not, and if not, how to do it next time).
Let's say that you didn't add __init__ to your subclass at all. The parent __init__ has not been overridden and will be called when ElectricCar(...) is instantiated. Your ElectricCar.__init__ doesn't do anything that python wouldn't do anyway. You only need your own __init__ if you plan to do something different that the parent class.
Just delete your __init__ method to make the warning go away.