On Sep 8, 8:51 pm, HPJ <henrypija...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Conceptually, Python checks for the presence of B.foo, and if it's > > not there it checks for foo's presence in the base classes. > > Yes, I have no problem believing you guys that this is what Python > does. Still, my question remains about where in the Language Reference > this is specified. And if the answer is nowhere, than the LR needs to > be amended, for obviously the way inheritance is done is no small > matter and its understanding should not be left to the user's own > intuition.
Well, I don't know if this detail alone is all that grave an omission-- it'll matter to very few users--but it does seem the LRM could use a subsection on inheritance in general. I'm sure the doc maintainers would welcome a contribution. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
