instance attributes not inherited?

[John M. Gabriele]

Dan Sommers wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>>How does it help that Parent.__init__ gets called? That call simply
>>would create a temporary Parent object, right? I don't see how it
>>should help (even though it *does* indeed work).
> 
> 
> The __init__ method is an *initializer*, *not* a constructor.  By the
> time __init__ runs, the object has already been constructed; __init__
> just does extra initialization.
> 
> Regards,
> Dan
> 

Right. Thanks for the clarification. :)

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