Dustan wrote: > [snip] That is, Parent does have its > own critique method, not a reference to Grand_parent.critique().
Interesting. "It has its own" critique method? Hm. Not quite sure what that means exactly... Anyhow, I wasn't suggesting that Parent had a reference to Grand_parent.critique(), only that Python would search *up* the tree looking for the method it's looking to call. Thanks! > So > when Child calls self.advise, it is calling its inherrited copy. Then, > since the inherited Child.advise() from Parent.advise() calls > self.critique, it calls it's own overriden critique method. > > I hope this makes sense. > -- (remove zeez if demunging email address) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list