imageguy wrote:
I have an object the I would like to use as a base class. Some of the
methods I would like to override completely, but others I would simply
like to call the base class method and use the return value in the
child method. The purpose here is to eliminate the duplication of
valuable code in the parent, when I really just need the child to
operate of a results of the parent.
Consider the following two classes;
class Parent(object):
def process(self, value):
retval = "Parent.result('%s')" % value
return retval
class Child(Parent):
def __init__(self):
Parent.__init__(self)
Delete this and the parent __init__ is called directly.
def process(self, value):
retval = "Child.result('%s')" % super(Child, self).process
(value)
return retval
super() was designed for multiple inheritance. The only reason I know
to use it with single inheritance it to save a
global-search-and-replace_with_confirmation if you change the name of
the parent or change parents. Unless I really anticipated such
contigencies, I would probably write Parent.process(self, value).
tjr
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