Sounds like you're just going to end up with more confusing code having multiple ways to refer to the exact same thing. Why?
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Howdy all, > > I want to inherit from a class, and define aliases for many of its > attributes. How can I refer to “the attribute that will be available by > name ‘spam’ once this class is defined”? > > class Foo(object): > def spam(self): > pass > > def eggs(self): > pass > > class Bar(Foo): > beans = Foo.spam > mash = Foo.eggs > > Is that the right way to do it? Will that leave me open to “unbound > method” or “is not an instance of ‘Bar’” or other problems when using > ‘Bar.beans’? > > -- > \ “If [a technology company] has confidence in their future | > `\ ability to innovate, the importance they place on protecting | > _o__) their past innovations really should decline.” —Gary Barnett | > Ben Finney > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Read my blog! I depend on your acceptance of my opinion! I am interesting! http://techblog.ironfroggy.com/ Follow me if you're into that sort of thing: http://www.twitter.com/ironfroggy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list