Bitswapper wrote:
> 
> So I have a parent and child class:
> 
> 
> class Map(object):
>     def __init__(self, name=''):
>         self.mapName = name
>         self.rules = {}
> 
> class Rule(Map):
>     def __init__(self, number):
>         Map.__init__(self)
>         self.number = number

This means that rules will never have a name. I think you need
      def __init__(self, name='', number=None):
          Map.__init__(self, name)
          self.number = number
> 
>     def __repr__(self):
>         return "Map " + self.mapName + " rule number " + str(self.number)
> 
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>   map = Map("thismap")
>   rule = Rule(1)
>   map.rules[rule.number] = rule
> 
> 
> 
> with the above:
> $ python -i inherit.py
> >>> map
> <__main__.Map object at 0xb7e889ec>
> >>> map.rules
> {1: Map  rule number 1}
> >>> map.rules[1]
> Map  rule number 1
> >>>
> 
> 
> I have tried adding:
>   map.rules[2] = Rule(2)
> 
> but that still gets:
> 
> $ python -i inherit.py
> >>> map.rules
> {1: Map  rule number 1, 2: Map  rule number 2}
> >>>
> 
> and:
> map.rule = Rule(3)
> 
> which also doesn't really get me what I'm looking for:
> 
> >>> map.rules
> {1: Map  rule number 1, 2: Map  rule number 2}
> >>> map.rule
> Map  rule number 3
> >>>
> 
> 
> It seems to me what I'm trying to do is link an arbitrary child instance to 
> an arbitrary instance of a
> parent class, which in this case would be handy  Because I'd like to populate 
> a map with rules and
> print the rules including the parent map name for each rule.  I'm just not 
> sure how I would go about
> doing this in python.
> 
> Any thoughts are welcome, and thanks in advance

I not sure what you mean by the above. Can you provide an example of what you 
want
to occur and the output for it?


~Ramit

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