Comparison and inheritance

In this exercise, let's test your understanding of what happens when an object from a parent class is compared to an object of a child class.

Consider the following two classes, which have been implemented and made available to you in script.py:

class Parent:
    def __eq__(self, other):
        print("Parent's __eq__() called")
        return True

class Child(Parent):
    def __eq__(self, other):
        print("Child's __eq__() called")
        return True

The Child class inherits from the Parent class, and both implement the __eq__() method that includes a diagnostic printout.

Question

Which __eq__() method will be called when the following code is run?*

p = Parent()
c = Child()

p == c

Possible answers

Parent's __eq__() method will be called.

Child's __eq__() method will be called.

The code will cause an error.