Calling a superclass method from a subclass in python

Question

I was wondering if a subclass could call its parent static method, and tested it : it works like I hoped!

class A(object):
    @classmethod
    def static(cls):
    print('act on '+cls.__name__)

class B(A):
    def foo(self):
        print('foo()')

>>> B.static()
act on B

I wanted to know if it had pitfalls to be aware of when using that technique ...

Any advice?

Answer 1

What you are calling is the parent's classmethod , not a staticmethod .

Anyway, both of them are OK and common to be called with a subclass.

In case you override A 's classmethod in your B , you can still refer to A.static using super(B, cls).static .