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Re: Alias for an attribute defined in a superclass

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Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy@gmail.com> writes:

> Sounds like you're just going to end up with more confusing code
> having multiple ways to refer to the exact same thing. Why?

(Why did you top-post?)

I'm defining aliases to conform to an existing API. The “Foo” class's
attributes are what is needed, but not by the right names. So I'm making
a subclass “Bar” to provide those same attributes by the names required
by the third-party API.

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Ben Finney

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Alias for an attribute defined in a superclass Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-04-01 09:14 +1100
  Re: Alias for an attribute defined in a superclass Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-04-01 00:14 +0000
    Re: Alias for an attribute defined in a superclass Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-04-01 11:59 +1100
  Re: Alias for an attribute defined in a superclass Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy@gmail.com> - 2011-03-31 20:36 -0400
    Re: Alias for an attribute defined in a superclass Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-04-01 11:57 +1100
  Re: Alias for an attribute defined in a superclass Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-03-31 19:24 -0700
    Re: Alias for an attribute defined in a superclass Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2011-04-01 11:54 +0200

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