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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 15:47:56 -0800
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On 01/24/2015 03:38 PM, Brian Gladman wrote:
> On 24/01/2015 23:22, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> class RF(Fraction):
>>      def is_integer(self):
>>         return self.numerator % self.denominator == 0
> Thanks for your help on this.  I must admit that nowhere in a lot of
> searching did I find that delegation is achieved by doing nothing!
>
>     Brian

That's *not* "doing nothing".   And it's not even really "delegation".  
It's just sub-classing Fraction to add one new method and inherit all 
other methods.

Gary Herron


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