Junior — Middle
Can you tell about cases of applying the principle of polymorphism in your projects?
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Answer from AI
In my Python projects, the principle of polymorphism was often used when working with different types of objects that implement the same interface or methods. For example, I had a class Animal with a method speak(), and subclasses Dog and Cat implemented this method in their own way. Thanks to polymorphism, I could write functions that accept objects of type Animal and call speak(), without worrying about the specific type:
class Animal:
def speak(self):
pass
class Dog(Animal):
def speak(self):
return "Woof"
class Cat(Animal):
def speak(self):
return "Meow"
def animal_sound(animal: Animal):
print(animal.speak())
animal_sound(Dog()) # Outputs: Woof
animal_sound(Cat()) # Outputs: Meow
This simplified code extension and support, allowing the addition of new classes with the desired behavior without changing existing code.