Invoke a superclass method from a subclass constructor

[Andreas Perstinger]

On 2011-09-11 13:17, Kayode Odeyemi wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Thomas Jollans<t at jollybox.de>  wrote:
>>  It is working:
>>
>>  >>>  class A(object):
>>  ...     def log (self, module):
>>  ...         return str ('logged')
>>  ...
>>  >>>  class B(A):
>>  ...     def __init__(self, module):
>>  ...         self.module = A().log(module)
>>  ...
>>  >>>  c = B('system')
>>  >>>  c.module
>>  'logged'
>
> Why do you have to do c.module? I'm expecting an output just by creating an
> instance of B.

Why do you expect an output? In B.__init__ you are just assigning the 
return value from A.log() to the attribute "module" and in A.log() there 
is no output either.

Bye, Andreas