> I could, but I will let you read and find what it says about class > attributes.
You think I would have asked specifically about the Language Reference if I hadn't read it and failed to find what I was looking for? The closest thing I was able to find was section 3.2. "The standard type hierarchy", subsection "Custom classes", where it says: "When the attribute name is not found [in its namespace dictionary], the attribute search continues in the base classes. This search of the base classes uses the C3 method resolution order [...]" That tells me how the lookup works, which I already knew. But it doesn't tell me what happens when a class is inherited. Now, one could argue if the attributes were copied, there would be no need for a lookup in the base classes, so derivatively it says that's not the case. To this I would say yes, there still would because after they've been copied through inheritance, attributes can still be removed via "del". Anyway, this passage, which is the only one I could find, doesn't provide a direct and conclusive answer to my question. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
