I've always been told that multiple inheritance is a bad thing, so I've tried to avoid. I didn't dig into why its a problem. I've recently come across a use of multiple inheritance in some python ...

To quote Bjarne Stroustrup, "Multiple inheritance is like a parachute. Most of the time you don't need it, but when you do need it, you really need it." In the early days of C++, before templates ...

So they cut multiple inheritance from the language (just as they cut operator overloading). ... Python 3.14 Changes Type Hints Forever: Lazy Annotations Explained. Jun 12, 2025 3 mins.