newbie: copy base class fields

[Jerry Hill]

On 3 May 2007 07:14:04 -0700, tmp123 <tmp123 at menta.net> wrote:
> Of course, it is not an option to copy one by one all the fields of
> class A inside the __init__ of B.

Is it okay to copy them all at once?  Like this:

class B(A):
    def __init__(self, a):
        self.__dict__.update(a.__dict__)
        self.v2 = 2

That will copy all of the attributes of instance a into the new instance.

-- 
Jerry