derived / base class name conflicts

[Ben Finney]

christopherlmarshall at yahoo.com wrote:
> Suppose you want to write a subclass of some existing class you are
> importing from a module you didn't write and that you don't want to
> study the internals of

No need to study its internals. Fire up a Python interpreter and
inspect its outside:

    >>> import foomodule
    >>> dir(foomodule.FooClass)

Any attributes named there should be avoided in your subclasses if you
don't want to clobber existing behaviour.

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Ben Finney