On 21/04/2011 18:12, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
chad<cdal...@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!

No, he didn't, he created an instance of HomeHandler.

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

test isn't really an instance of BaseHandler, it's an instance of
HomeHandler, which is a subclass of BaseHandler.

If you do this:

    class BaseHandler(object):
        def foo(self):
            print "Hello"

    class HomeHandler(BaseHandler):
        pass

    test = HomeHandler()

then you'll find:

>>> isinstance(test, BaseHandler)
True

but:

>>> type(test)
<class '__main__.HomeHandler'>
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