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Polymorphism

Polymorphism allows an object or method to take on multiple forms. There are several types of polymorphism in Python including duck typing, operator overloading, method overloading, and method overriding. Duck typing allows an object's type to be determined at runtime based on the presence of required methods rather than its class. Method overriding replaces a parent class method with a child class version, while super() calls the parent method from the child class.

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Polymorphism

Polymorphism allows an object or method to take on multiple forms. There are several types of polymorphism in Python including duck typing, operator overloading, method overloading, and method overriding. Duck typing allows an object's type to be determined at runtime based on the presence of required methods rather than its class. Method overriding replaces a parent class method with a child class version, while super() calls the parent method from the child class.

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Polymorphism

Polymorphism is a word that came from two greek words, poly means many
and morphos means forms.
If a variable, object or method perform different behavior according to
situation, it is called polymorphism.
• Duck Typing
• Operator Overloading
• Method Overloading
• Method Overriding
Duck Typing
In Python, we follow a principle - If ‘it walks like a duck and talks like a duck,
it must be a duck’ which means python doesn’t care about which class of
object it is, if it is an object and required behavior is present for that object
then it will work. The type of object is distinguished only at runtime. This is
called as duck typing.
Duck Typing
Python doesn’t care about which class of object it is, in order to call an existing
method on an object. If the method is defined on the object, then it will be called.

walk - thapak thapak walk – tabdak tabdak


Strong Typing
We can check whether the object passed to the method has the method being
invoked or not.
hasattr ( ) Function is used to check whether the object has a method or not.
Syntax:- hasattr(object, attribute)
Where attribute can be a method or variable. If it is found in the object then
this method returns True else False.
Method Overloading
When more than one method with the same name is defined in the same class,
it is known as method overloading.
In python, If a method is written such that it can perform more than one task,
it is called method overloading.
Method Overriding
If we write method in the both classes, parent class and child class then the parent
class’s method is not available to the child class.
In this case only child class’s method is accessible which means child class’s
method is replacing parent class’s method.
Method overriding is used when programmer want to modify the existing behavior
of a Method.
Method Overriding
class Add:
def result(self, a, b):
print(“Addition:”, a+b)

class Multi(Add):
def result(self, a, b):
print(“Multiplication:”, a*b)

m = Multi()
m.result(10, 20)
Method with super( ) Method
If we write method in the both classes, parent class and child class then the parent
class’s method is not available to the child class.
In this case only child class’s method is accessible which means child class’s
method is replacing parent class’s method.
super ( ) method is used to call parent class’s constructor or methods from the
child class.
Syntax:- super().methodName()
Operator Overloading
If any operator performs additional actions other than what it is meant for, it is
called operator overloading.

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