self-inheritance...

[Richard Jones]

On Thursday 06 September 2001 06:14, Roman Suzi wrote:
> Interestingly enough, it works as expected:
> >>> class Dolly:
>
> ...    def a(s): pass
> ...
>
> >>> class Dolly(Dolly):
>
> ...    def b(s): pass
> ...
>
> >>> a = Dolly()
> >>> a.

Note that you don't actually have "self inheritance" here. Witness:

>>> class Dolly:
...     def a(s): pass
... 
>>> Dolly
<class __main__.Dolly at 0x8133c3c>               # <<< first ID
>>> class Dolly(Dolly):
...     def b(s): pass
... 
>>> Dolly
<class __main__.Dolly at 0x813206c>               # <<< second ID
>>> Dolly.__bases__
(<class __main__.Dolly at 0x8133c3c>,)            # <<< first ID

Now sure, internally the Dolly class object think it's called Dolly - well, 
it knows what name it was created under. But notice that the object ids are 
different for the first and second Dolly. And the second Dolly's base classes 
list references the first Dolly class instance.


> Are there any means first Dolly-class could use to
> intervene into inheritance mechanism and spoil
> it?

Sorry, I don't understand this question.


   Richard