Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > As was once pointed out to me some years ago, when I wrote something > similar, a.f() is not just a shortcut for A.f(a) [a.__class__.f(a)]. The > latter only looks for f in the class A namespace while the former also > looks in superclass namespaces.
Nope: >>> class B: ... def f(self): print 'b.f' ... >>> class A(B): pass ... >>> a=A() >>> a.__class__.f(a) b.f >>> Inheritance applies in any lookup of an attribute in a class, just as well as on an instance of the class. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
