Does Python Have Subtype?

In (purist) theory, Python doesn't allow subtyping at all (because you can always call type), but in practice, Python uses subtyping all over the place—and as long as you write reasonably Pythonic code, it works wonderfully.

Is Python a subtype?

Python issubclass() is built-in function used to check if a class is a subclass of another class or not. This function returns True if the given class is the subclass of given class else it returns False . Return Type: True if object is subclass of a class, or any element of the tuple, otherwise False.

Can you have subclasses in Python?

This means that an object of a subclass can access all the attributes and methods of the superclass. Moreover, subclass may have its own attributes or methods in addition to the inherited ones as well. Let's learn to create a subclass in Python. We created two classes Person and Employee with one method in each class.