RinKaMeAri wrote: > Hi! > Could you imagine any way to block access to the base class public > methods? > Here is an example: > class B: > def public_method(): > pass > > class A(B): > def public_a_method(): > pass > > def a = A() > > Is there any way to block the call a.public_method() without any > changes to B class? > Thank you!
The simplest way would be to override B.public_method within A by defining A.public_method to raise a NotImplementedError or similar exception. Though of course this then begs the question of why A would need to subclass B in the first place, but I assume there would be methods you *did* want to implement. Perhaps more background would yield a better solution. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list