Magnus Lycka wrote: > Peter Hansen wrote: >>Good you clarified that, because "parent" definitely isn't used that way >>by most other people here. > > Unless they are coding GUIs? I guess it's pretty common that GUI > controls are contained in other controls called parents. At least > that's how it's done in wxPython.
Entirely true... good point. I suppose I should say instead that "in the context of Object-Oriented Programming, the term 'parent class' almost universally refers to the superclass of a class, while the term 'parent object' is ambiguous and might refer to the object from which another object is created provided a reference the creating object is passed in to the constructor." :-) (I notice the OP's original post refers to parent object, while his clarification refers to parent class... to add to the confusion.) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
