AI engineering glossary · Python advanced
What is mixin?
Mixin: A small class meant to be combined with others through multiple inheritance to add one focused capability, not to stand alone. Mixins let you share behaviour such as logging or serialisation across unrelated classes.
Mixin: an example
class JSONMixin: def to_json(self): return json.dumps(self.__dict__). Any class inheriting it gains a to_json method.
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Where you learn it
Mixin is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.