Question about inheritance...

[Mike Meyer]

"KraftDiner" <bobrien18 at yahoo.com> writes:

> I have a base class called Shape
> And then classes like Circle, Square, Triangle etc, that inherit from
> Shape:
>
> My quesiton is can a method of the Shape class call a method in Circle,
> or Square etc...?

Yup:

>>> class Shape(object):
...  def commented_draw(self):
...   print "Drawing", self.__class__.__name__
...   self.draw()
... 
>>> class Circle(Shape):
...  def draw(self):
...   print "Drawing a Circle"
... 
>>> c = Circle()
>>> c.commented_draw()
Drawing Circle
Drawing a Circle
>>> 

Or maybe you meant invoking them directly, which a method in Shape
would do by calling Circle.draw(self). The latter is ugly - you should
use self.draw() to invoke the draw routine that's correct for self.

    <mike
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