There should only be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it”, says the Zen of Python. Yet there are areas where even seasoned programmers debate what the right or wrong way to do things ...

The idea is that inheritance is a way to express an "is a" relationship; in the above, Circle is an Ellipse, which is a Shape, thus, transitively, Circle is also a Shape. Implicitly, Shape is an ...

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