Kurt Schwehr wrote:
I'm trying to build an OO system for encoding and decoding
datapackets. I'd like the parent class to have an encode function
that uses each of the child classes' packing methods. It appears that
this works for attributes of children accessed by the parent, but not
for methods.
hell no, this works for methods as well.
Is that right? For attributes I found this example,
where the alphabet attribute is set in the child, but used in the
parent.
http://www.pasteur.fr/formation/infobio/python/ch19s04.html
Should I just set an attribute in the child class and then call the
super's functionality making is pull the data from the attribute?
Thanks,
-kurt
class Parent:
def foo(self):
raise NotImplementedError() # virtual method, it has to be
overriden by childs
def bar(self):
self.foo()
class Son(Parent):
def foo(self):
print "I'm your son"
class Daughter(Parent):
def foo(self):
print "I'm your daughter"
Son().bar()
"I'm your son"
Declaring the foo method at the Parent level is not required. But it's a
good practice: explicit > implicit and it helps to write proper
documentation.
Jean-Michel
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