chad <cdal...@gmail.com> writes: > Let's say I have the following.... > > class BaseHandler: > def foo(self): > print "Hello" > > class HomeHandler(BaseHandler): > pass > > > Then I do the following... > > test = HomeHandler() > test.foo() > > How can HomeHandler call foo() when I never created an instance of > BaseHandler?
But you created one! test is an instance of HomeHandler, which is a subclass of BaseHandler, so test is also an instance of BaseHandler. A subclass represents a subset of the instances of its super class. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
