inheriting variables

[Steve Holden]

"Jp Calderone" <exarkun at intarweb.us> wrote ...
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 10:34:08AM +0000, Haran Shivanan wrote:
> > This seems like a fairly straight forward thing but I'm not sure about
how
> > to implement it.
> > I have a base class from which I'm deriving several new classes:
> > class A:
> > mem_a=0
> > mem_b=1
> > class B(A):pass
> >
> > I want B to inherit mem_a and mem_b from A without my having to explicit
do
> > something like:
> >
> > self.mem_a = 0
> >
> > in the constructor for class B.
>
>     class A:
>         a = 0
>         b = 1
>
>     class B(A):
>         pass
>
>     b = B()
>     print b.a, b.b
>
>   Isn't this the behavior you desire?  If not, could you clarify your
> question?

Probably not.

>>> class A:
...   a = 0
...   b = 1
...
>>> class B(A):
...   pass
...
>>> b = B()
>>> A.a = 23
>>> b.a
23
>>>

I suspect the OP wants a separate class variable for each subclass. Right,
Haran?

regards
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