thanks - interesting essay/article - a lot in their I've never really considered - though its only recently ive started playing with multiple inheritance in any context - thanks for that Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > glenn wrote: > > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > > > (snip) > >> > >> Here you could use a class attribute to provide a default: > >> > >> class Creature(object): > >> noise = "" > >> > >> def voice(self): > >> return "voice:" + self.noise > >> > >> > >> class Dog(Creature): > >> noise="bark" > >> > >> def voice(self): > >> print "brace your self:" > >> return Creature.voice(self) > >> # can also use this instead, cf the Fine Manual > >> return super(Dog, self).voice() > >> > (snip) > > > so for your $.02 do you see this as being, umm, superior in anyway to > > creature.voice()? > > I suppose "this" refers to the use of super() ? If so, I wouldn't say > it's "superior", but it can be helpful with complex inheritence scheme > (something that does'nt happen very frequently in Python), and more > specifically with multiple inheritance. You may want to read this for > more infos: > > http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2.3/descrintro/#mro > > HTH > -- > bruno desthuilliers > python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for > p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])"
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