Nested inner classes and inheritance -> namespace problem

Larry Hastings larry at hastings.org
Wed Apr 13 23:40:57 EDT 2011


On 04/13/2011 07:37 PM, Eric Snow wrote:
> I suppose you could try something like this:
>
> class Outer:
>   global Inner
>   class Inner:
>     class Worker:
>       pass
>
>   class InnerSubclass(Inner):
>     class Worker(Inner.Worker):
>       pass
>
> However, that pollutes your global namespace.  If you are worried 
> about that you could try: [...]

It also means that Inner is not actually /in/ Outer, and the whole point 
was to have the class accessed as Outer.Inner.  But I can get what I 
wanted, if immediately after the definition of Outer I have:

    Outer.Inner = Inner
    del Inner


Thanks for the suggestion of "global Inner"!  That makes this approach 
palatable.


/larry/
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