On 30/9/2013 08:41, markot...@gmail.com wrote: > under variables, i mean, the int's and lists and strings and floats that the > parent class uses. IF in parent class there is variable called location, then > can i use the same variable in my sub class.
Python doesn't actually have variables, but the things it documents as variables are local names within a method. Those are not visible outside of the method, regardless of whether you're in a class or a subclass. But perhaps you mean attributes. There are both class attributes and instance attributes, and the behavior is quite different. Roughly speaking a class attribute occurs only once per class, and all code can read its value with either Class.my_attrib or instance.my_attrib. It can be written with Class.my_attrib. On the other hand, instance attributes are usable by instance.my_attrib, regardless of whether the instance is a base class or a child class. Each instance of the class gets a separate copy of such an attribute. They are normally defined in the __init__() method. If you don't happen to know the difference between a class an an instance of that class, then all the above will look like gibberish, and you need to do some studying first. -- DaveA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
