André wrote: > John M. Gabriele wrote: > > Since Child has no advice() method, it inherits the one for Parent. > Thus, Child can be thought of as being defined as follows: > > . class Child( Parent ): > . > . def speak( self ): > . print '\t\tChild.speak()' > . self.advise() > . > . def advise( self ): # inherited from Parent > . print '\tParent.advise()' > . self.critique() > . > . def critique( self ): > . print '\t\tChild.critique()' > .
That's a very interesting way to look at it... But I thought that the Python interpreter takes care of walking up the inheritance tree looking for the instance methods, rather than what you've written above... > Note that "self" refer to the *instance* created, not the *class*. Thanks. Right -- the self object always refers to the object that you originally used to call the instance method (here, speak()). > > Now, does the output make sense? > > André > Bearing in mind what self is referring to, then yes, the output does make sense. Thanks. :) ---J -- (remove zeez if demunging email address) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
