Class Inheritance - What am I doing wrong?

[Virgil Dupras]

On Apr 24, 10:22 pm, Brian Munroe <brian.e.mun... at gmail.com> wrote:
> My example:
>
> class A(object):
>
>         def __init__(self, name):
>                 self.__name = name
>
>         def getName(self):
>                 return self.__name
>
> class B(A):
>
>         def __init__(self,name=None):
>                 super(A,self).__init__()
>
>         def setName(self, name):
>                 self.__name = name
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>
>         a = A('class a')
>         print a.getName()
>
>         b = B('class b')
>         print b.getName()
>
>         b.setName('class b, reset')
>         print b.getName()
>
> I get the following error:
>
> mtinky:~ brian$ python teste.py
> class a
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "teste.py", line 23, in <module>
>     print b.getName()
>   File "teste.py", line 7, in getName
>     return self.__name
> AttributeError: 'B' object has no attribute '_A__name'
>
> Am I *not* using super() correctly?  Also, did I define my the class B
> constructor correctly?

Exactly, you used it wrong. It's super(B, self).

But before you start using super() everywhere, read this:

http://fuhm.net/super-harmful/

I love Python, but super() is one of those tricky things...