can’t inherit from superclass

Question

I have a simple code like below where the class Employee should inherit from the class Person.

class Person:
  def __init__(self, firstname, lastname, age):
    self.firstname = firstname
    self.lastname = lastname
    self.age = age
  def getname(self):
    return self.firstname, self.lastname
  def getage(self):
    return self.age

class Employee(Person):
  def __init__(self, first, last, empid, age):
    Person.__init__(self, first, last, age):
    self.empid = empid
  def getemp(self):
return self.getname() + ", " + self.empid

employee = Employee("Bart", "Simpson", 1006, 16)
print(employee.getemp())

It gives me this error:

File "/tmp/pyadv.py", line 156
    Person.__init__(self, first, last, age):
                                               ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I checked Python documentation about classes and it didn’t have that superclass initialization inside the __init__() of the subclass. But I found that in other websites like here, where Dog inherits from Pet. So, what am I missing?

Answer 1

You're not missing anything. You need to get rid of the : on that line.

: only comes after the original definition ie: def getname(self): and is always followed by an indented line that declares the function. When you are calling a function you don't do this.