Want - but cannot get - a nested class to inherit from outer class

[castironpi at gmail.com]

On Mar 7, 3:19 pm, "Chris Mellon" <arka... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:00 PM, DBak <david... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  I would like to build a class for a data structure such that nodes of
> >  the data structure - of interest only to the data structure
> >  implementation itself and not to the consumer - are instances of one
> >  of two class types.  I thought to encapsulate the nodes' classes

[a certain way]

> Not only is the name not defined, the class doesn't even exist yet.
>
> >  What is the Pythonic thing I should be doing instead?
>
> Don't nest them. [ Too much anything is waste.]

You expose a problem with the way I and some others write code.

Humans have enormous "mental stacks"--- the stacks the contexts the
speakers speak in push things they're hearing on to.  When writing for
computers, even those that speak Python, you have to say one thing at
a time, and let it get its mind around it.  They're not that deep,
they're just at a deep depth.  (The depth the ocean the submarine's in
has, not the depth the submarine's -at-.)  Marvelous memories, though.

Your robotic snake can also do symbolic calculus, radio to clusters,
and generate arbitrary auditory waveforms.  But in a snake, the snake
functions are primary.  What's a multiplexer?