Newbie: Inheritance of accessors

[Will Fitzgerald]

It turns out the trick is to call the __init__ method on the parent
class, so the code goes:

class R(object):
   def __init__(self):
       self.__x = 0
   def getx(self):
       return self.__x
   def setx(self,x):
       self.__x = x
   x = property(getx,setx)

class S(R):
   def __init__(self):
       self.__y = 0
       R.__init__(self)      # <=== The magic happens here
   def gety(self):
       return self.__y
   def sety(self,y):
       self.__y = y
   y = property(sety,sety)

>>> e = S()
>>> e.x
0

(Thanks, again, to Mark McEahern)