Inheritance is one of the pillars of OOP. It allows a new class (called a child class, subclass, or derived class) to inherit the attributes and methods of an existing class (called a parent class, superclass, or base class). This promotes an "is-a" logic, for example, "a Dog is an Animal." The child class can reuse the parent's code and also add its own unique attributes and methods, or override the inherited ones.

When a child class defines a method with the same name as a method in its parent class, we say it **overrides** the parent method. To call the parent class's method from within the child (e.g., to extend its functionality rather than completely replacing it), we use the `super()` function.

class Animal: # Parent class
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name
    def make_sound(self):
        return "Generic animal sound"

class Dog(Animal): # Child class
    def make_sound(self): # Method override
        return "Woof! Woof!"

my_dog = Dog("Buddy")
print(f"{my_dog.name} says: {my_dog.make_sound()}")