inherit without calling parent class constructor?

[Christian Dieterich]

On Dé Céadaoin, Ean 26, 2005, at 17:02 America/Chicago, Steven Bethard 
wrote:

> Just a note of clarification:
>
> The @deco syntax is called *decorator* syntax.
> Classes with a __get__ method are called *descriptors*.

Okay, I think I get the idea. I didn't know about the @deco syntax, but 
it seems to be straightforward. And I got myself updated a little bit 
on descriptors and static methods.

On Dé Céadaoin, Ean 26, 2005, at 17:09 America/Chicago, Jeff Shannon 
wrote:

> You could try making D a container for B instead of a subclass:

Thank you for the solution. I'll need to have a closer look at it. 
However it seems like the decision whether to do "some expensive 
calculation" or not is delegated to the exterior of class D. Different 
classes that instanciate D would need to know what has been going on 
elsewhere. That might complicate things.

I'll go ahead and try with the descriptors first.

Thanks for all the help,

Christian