Kent Johnson wrote on 22.09.2005:
>This is standard behavior for any class attribute - if it's not
>defined in the derived class, the base class is checked. It's not
>special for __init__.
>
>I can't find a comprehensive reference for the way attribute lookup
>works - anyone else?
Well, I did know that any attribute used explicitly with a class instance is
looked up in the class, then the base class etc:
class Base:
variable = 1
class Child(Base):
pass
child = Child()
print child.variable
1
What I did not know was that the __init__ method behaves the same way - i.e.
that Python looks for __init__ upon instantiation until it finds one.
Thanks,
Jan
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