Question about inheritence

[Catherine Heathcote]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:35:58 -0700, Matimus wrote:

> On Jul 22, 9:26 am, Catherine Heathcote
> <catherine.heathc... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If I create a new class inherited from another with a constructor, what
>> happens with the new class's constructer?
>> Thanks for your time.
> 
> Nothing, unless you call it in your constructor.
> 
> class Base(object):
>  def __init__(self):
>   print "Base constructor called"
> 
> # without calling the base class constructor
> class C(Base):
>  def __init__(self):
>   print "C constructor called"
> 
> # call the base class constructor using super
> class D(Base):
>  def __init__(self):
>   super(D, self).__init__()
>   print "D constructor called"
> 
> c = C()
> d = D()
> 
> 
> Matt

Aha! Makes sence, thankyou. As you can probably tell I am new to Python,
but not programming as a whole.