🎓 Multi-Level Inheritance: Exploring Multi-Level Inheritance with Animal Traits in Python🐾

Multi-Level Inheritance is a way of creating a family tree of animals with different characteristics 🌳. Each animal inherits characteristics from its parent, who also inherits characteristics from its grandparent. In Python, this is done by using Multi-Level Inheritance, where a subclass inherits from a superclass that inherits from another superclass.

Textual Diagram:

🦁 Animal (Superclass) 🦁
┌────────────────────┐
│   speak()          │
└────────────────────┘
         ^
         |
         |
         |
         |
         v
🐾 Mammal (Subclass) 🐾
┌────────────────────┐
│   run()            │
└────────────────────┘
         ^
         |
         |
         |
         |
         v
🐕 Dog (Subclass) 🐕
┌────────────────────┐
│   bark()           │
└────────────────────┘

Diagram Explanation:

• In this diagram, we can see that the Dog class inherits from the Mammal class and has access to its attributes and methods 🚀.
• The Mammal class inherits from the Animal class and has access to its attributes and methods 🚀.
• The Animal class is the top-level superclass that defines the common characteristic of all animals 🌟.
• The arrows show the direction of inheritance 🔽.

This example demonstrates how each subclass inherits and modifies characteristics from its superclass, creating a hierarchical structure of classes in Python 🐍.

Example:

# Define a superclass called "Animal"
class Animal:
    def speak(self):
        print("Animal speaks")

# Define a subclass called "Mammal" that inherits from "Animal"
class Mammal(Animal):
    def run(self):
        print("Mammal runs")

# Define another subclass called "Dog" that inherits from "Mammal"
class Dog(Mammal):
    def bark(self):
        print("Dog barks")

# Create an object of the "Dog" class
dog = Dog()

# Access methods from all levels of the inheritance hierarchy
dog.speak()  # This invokes the "speak" method from the "Animal" class
dog.run()    # This invokes the "run" method from the "Mammal" class
dog.bark()   # This invokes the "bark" method from the "Dog" class

Code Explanations:

• We define the Animal class, which represents general animal characteristics, with a speak method.
• The Mammal class inherits from Animal and adds a run method, which is a particular characteristic of mammals.
• The Dog class, a subclass of Mammal, inherits both speak from Animal and run from Mammal, and adds its own method bark, which is a specific characteristic of dogs.
• We create an object of the Dog class and show Multi-Level Inheritance by calling methods from different levels of the hierarchy.