Inheriting property functions

[Robert Kern]

Dustan wrote:
> Looking at this interactive session:
> 
>>>> class A(object):
> 	def __init__(self, a):
> 		self.a = a
> 	def get_a(self): return self.__a
> 	def set_a(self, new_a): self.__a = new_a
> 	a = property(get_a, set_a)
> 
> 
>>>> class B(A):
> 	b = property(get_a, set_a)
> 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#11>", line 1, in <module>
>     class B(A):
>   File "<pyshell#11>", line 2, in B
>     b = property(get_a, set_a)
> NameError: name 'get_a' is not defined
>>>> class B(A):
> 	b = a
> 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#13>", line 1, in <module>
>     class B(A):
>   File "<pyshell#13>", line 2, in B
>     b = a
> NameError: name 'a' is not defined
> 
> B isn't recognizing its inheritence of A's methods get_a and set_a
> during creation.

Inheritance really doesn't work that way. The code in the class suite gets 
executed in its own namespace that doesn't know anything about inheritance. The 
inheritance rules operate in attribute access on the class object later.

Try this:

   class B(A):
     b = property(A.get_a, A.set_a)

or this:

   class B(A):
     b = A.a

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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