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title: "How to Access Child-class Methods from Parent-class in Python"
description: "You can access child methods from the parent. The example shows a real-time scenario, and it's helpful for interviews."
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date: 2022-09-06
modified: 2026-10-10
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# How to Access Child-class Methods from Parent-class in Python

This topic tells accessing child class methods from the parent class. A concept is already available to access parent class methods from child class (using the super method). Here, it is the opposite.

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***As part of OOPS and avoiding code repetition, you can access parent class methods from the child. Similarly, vice versa. But how? Below example explains it.***

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## **Accessing child class methods from the parent**

Before deep diving into details, the relationship usually goes from parent to child. Always parent is a master, and a child is born to a parent. The child can get its parent’s methods.

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Below, you will find the logic is how one can **access child-class methods** from the parent class. It’s also an interview question.

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## Child and Parent classes

Here, I have written two classes and explained how it works. And in the child class passed parent class as argument. I have now assigned the obj1 object to the parent class.

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```
class parent:
    def __init__(self):
        pass
    def test1(self):
        print("I am in Parent")
        
class child(parent):
    def __init(self):
        pass
    def test2(self):
        print("I am in child class")
        

obj1=parent()
# Call to child-class method from parent
obj1.test2()
```

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Output

The below result shows an error when you try to call the child method from the parent. In interviews, you can tell you would get **an Attribute** error. So inheritance works from parent to child and not from child to parent.

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 15, in <module>
    obj1.test2()
AttributeError: 'parent' object has no attribute 'test2'


** Process exited - Return Code: 1 **
Press Enter to exit terminal
```

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