glenn wrote:
> [...] In this trivial example, how could I modify the voice method of
> 'dog' to call the base class 'creatures' voice method from with in it?
>
> class creature:
> def __init__(self):
> self.noise=""
> def voice(self):
> return "voice:" + self.noise
>
> class dog(creature):
> def __init__(self):
> self.noise="bark"
>
> def voice(self):
> print "brace your self:"
If you want dog.voice() to just print "voice: bark", you just have to omit
the voice method for the dog class: it will be inherited from creature.
If you want dog.voice() to do something else, you can call superclass'
method like this:
def voice(self):
creature.voice(self)
print "brace your self"
any_other_magic()
HTH
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