On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 5:46 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 06:11:53 -0500, D'Arcy Cain wrote: >> It accesses the parent class. I want to access the parent object. > > Ah. Well, no wonder it doesn't work: you're confusing the OO inheritance > concept of "parent" (a superclass) with whatever relationship you have > between one instance and another instance. Just because they share the > same name doesn't make them the same concept.
No, he's merely confusing the concept of nested classes in Python with nested classes in Java, which actually supports this magic. To the OP: Python isn't Java. Nested classes in Python work like "static" nested classes in Java. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
