Chapter 18. Inheritance
The language feature most often associated with object-oriented programming is
inheritance. Inheritance is the ability to define a new class that is a modified version of an
existing class. In this chapter I demonstrate inheritance using classes that represent playing
cards, decks of cards, and poker hands.
If you don’t play poker, you can read about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker, but
you don’t have to; I’ll tell you what you need to know for the exercises.
Code examples from this chapter are available from
http://thinkpython2.com/code/Card.py.