John Salerno wrote: > John Salerno wrote: >> Peter Otten wrote: >> >>> Try it: Fighter(...) will implicitly call Character.__init__(...). >> Ok, I'm confused! :) I thought you had to explicity call a base class's >> __init__ method? How is it doing this? > > Wait, I just might be an idiot. Is it not even necessary for me to call > Character's __init__ method? Fighter will inherit it automatically and > call it when a Fighter object is created, right? > By Jove, he's got it!
> If that's the case, then I don't know what I was thinking! I guess I was > thinking more along the lines of how in wxPython, when you subclass a > Frame, you have to call Frame.__init__, but maybe that's only because > you then do your own stuff in a custom __init__ class, which would have > otherwise overridden the Frame.__init__. > > In this case, I need Character.__init__ and nothing else, right? Now > your other method is making sense to me too! :) Nice one. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
