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Re: A question about Python Classes

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From "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
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Subject Re: A question about Python Classes
Date Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:12:11 +0200
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chad <cdalten@gmail.com> writes:

> Let's say I have the following....
>
> class BaseHandler:
>     def foo(self):
>         print "Hello"
>
> class HomeHandler(BaseHandler):
>     pass
>
>
> Then I do the following...
>
> test = HomeHandler()
> test.foo()
>
> How can HomeHandler call foo() when I never created an instance of
> BaseHandler?

But you created one!

test is an instance of HomeHandler, which is a subclass of BaseHandler,
so test is also an instance of BaseHandler.

A subclass represents a subset of the instances of its super class.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.

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A question about Python Classes chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-04-21 08:43 -0700
  Re: A question about Python Classes "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2011-04-21 19:12 +0200

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