Currently experimenting with inheritance in Python and encountering an issue where a field labeled famil gets overwritten by the previous instance's input when no value is provided for famil.
class Person:
def __init__(self, famil=[], name="Jim"):
self._family = famil
self._name = name
def get_family(self):
return self._family
def get_age(self):
return self._age
class Woman(Person):
def __init__(self, family=[], name="Jane"):
print(family)
Person.__init__(self, family, name)
def add_family(self, name):
self._family += [name]
if __name__ == "__main__":
a = Woman()
a.add_family("john")
print(a.get_family())
b = Woman()
print(b.get_family())
print(a.get_family())
Expected Output:
[]
['John']
[]
[]
['John']
The behavior is perplexing as I am seeking to understand the concept of inheritance, expecting instances 'a' and 'b' to be independent from each other.