Entries published on December 12, 2023
Django’s three types of model inheritance
This is part of a series of posts I’m doing as a sort of Python/Django Advent calendar, offering a small tip or piece of information each day from the first Sunday of Advent through Christmas Eve. See the first post for an introduction.
Inheritance and its discontents
People can, and do, debate whether inheritance in object-oriented programming languages is a thing that ought to exist. There are even debates about what “inheritance” ought to mean, because there are multiple things it could mean (see this post by Hillel Wayne for a good brief explanation of the different potential meanings …