Creating subclassess (newbie)

[Lonnie Princehouse]

Typically, "subclass" refers to a derived class.  It looks like you've
interpreted it in a different way, to mean a class that is a member of
another class?  Interesting =)

subclass example-

class MainClass:
  def foo(self):
    return 'main_foo'
  def bar(self):
    return 'main_bar' 

class SubClass(MainClass):
  def foo(self):
    return 'sub_foo'

>>> x = SubClass()
>>> print x.foo()
sub_foo
>>> print x.bar()
main_bar

 





Adam <adamc at linuxmail.org> wrote in message news:<20040621153854.14f10a9f at debian>...
> I have tried to send this to the tutor mailing list, but it
> seems to be down at the moment. 
> 
> I have a subclass I want to create- my intuition told me
> that it would be done like this:
> 
> class MainClass:
> 	class SubClass:
> 		code...
> 	subclassinstance = SubClass()
> mainclassinstance = MainClass()
> 
> But it seems that this isn't going to work. I'm reading a
> couple of Python books, but they don't seem to cover this
> topic very well (I don't see any coding examples).
> 
> What is the best way of creating (coding) subclasses?
> Alternatively, is there any good documentation on the web
> for doing this? 
> 
> Thanks in advance. 
> 
> Adam