vars between classes

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sat, 27 May 2000, Marc Tardif wrote:

> OK, here's working code now. My previous code was only meant to help
> demonstrate my problem. In this new code, I have tried to change var in
> the first class by calling "first" explicitly. Unfortunately, "3" is still
> not printed:
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/python
> 
> class first:
>   def __init__(self, var):
>     self.var = var
>     self.myMethod()
> 
>   def myMethod(self):
>     print "first:", self.var
>     second(self.var)
      ^^^^^^^^^
      Here you construct a new object of class "second", which inherits
its __init__ from "first", which calls its "myMethod", which prints
"second." It's still not very clear what you expect to happen.


>     print "last:", self.var
> 
> class second(first):
>   def myMethod(self):
>     print "second:", self.var
>     first.var = 3
> 
> def test(var):
>   first(var)
> 
> if (__name__=='__main__'):
>   test(2)
> 
> 
> 

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