Inheritance error in python 2.3.4???

[friedmud at gmail.com]

Thanks guys for all your input!  I really appreciate the prompt
replies!

As you can tell I'm having a bit of trouble throwing out old habits...
I'm not new to loosely typed languages (I'm a big PHP fan) but learning
a new object model has been a little tough... I'm trying to make my old
ideas fit a new language (which is a bad idea in general).

So thanks for setting me straight.  I hadn't yet heard of "properties"
it looks like it does what I want... so I will check them out further.
But if they don't do what I want I will probably just use a single
underscore and ummmm trust my users ;-)    (In general, C++ people
aren't a trusting bunch.... Auto Garbage collection!!?!???!
What!?!???!  ;-)

Thanks again for the replies,
Friedmud