On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:14:42 -0700, HPJ wrote: >> I could, but I will let you read and find what it says about class >> attributes. > > You think I would have asked specifically about the Language Reference > if I hadn't read it and failed to find what I was looking for?
You must be new to the Internet *wink* Of course people ask without having made the effort themselves. "Please sir, will you do my work for me?" is practically the norm on Internet forums. Only without the please. > The closest thing I was able to find was section 3.2. "The standard type > hierarchy", subsection "Custom classes", where it says: > > "When the attribute name is not found [in its namespace dictionary], the > attribute search continues in the base classes. This search of the base > classes uses the C3 method resolution order [...]" > > That tells me how the lookup works, which I already knew. But it doesn't > tell me what happens when a class is inherited. The inheriting class has its base class set, and the MRO (method resolution order), and that's pretty much it as far as I can tell. Seems to me that the documentation is a little incomplete in this regard. It looks to me like one of those "language lawyer" details that needs fleshing out. Out of curiosity, are there languages where inheritance means copy? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list