On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:37:36 -0500, "John M. Gabriele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Hirschfield wrote: >> Nothing's wrong with python's oop inheritance, you just need to know >> that the parent class' __init__ is not automatically called from a >> subclass' __init__. Just change your code to do that step, and you'll >> be fine: [example snipped] > How does it help that Parent.__init__ gets called? That call simply > would create a temporary Parent object, right? I don't see how it > should help (even though it *does* indeed work). The __init__ method is an *initializer*, *not* a constructor. By the time __init__ runs, the object has already been constructed; __init__ just does extra initialization. Regards, Dan -- Dan Sommers <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
