can’t inherit from superclass [closed]

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?

__init__()

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2 Answers
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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.

:

def getname(self):

Change

Person.__init__(self, first, last, age): to

Person.__init__(self, first, last, age):

super().__init__(first, last, age)

super().__init__(first, last, age)