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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Encapsulation unpythonic?
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:57:10 -0400
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On 19 Aug 2013 07:05:48 GMT, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info>
declaimed the following:

>
>I'm not actually talking about monkey-patching. I'm talking about just 
>normal inheritance of classes. E.g. If a module has this class:
>
>
>class Parrot:
>    def __init__(self):
>        self._name = "Polly"
>    def talk(self):
>        print "%s wants a cracker!" % self._name
>
>
>I might be tempted to do this:
>
>class MyParrot:
>    def __init__(self):
>        super(MyParrot, self).__init__()
>        self._name = "George"
>
	Which will do nothing... you forgot to subclass...

class MyParrot(Parrot):

>
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