inheritance

[Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala]

Hello Ian,

Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:50 AM, yag <yagnesh at live.com> wrote:
>> three classes A,B,C and instance x.
>>
>> now how can I call methods foo in class A and B using 'x' instance. (I hope I
>> could pronounce the terminology correct)
>
> Do you mean that you want C.foo to call B.foo, and B.foo to call
> A.foo?  If that is the case, just use super(), as you already do with
> the __init__ method.
>

> Or do you want to skip C.foo and call A.foo or B.foo directly?  

yes!

>In that case, just call it from the specific class you want.  Since you
> are dispatching from the class instead of the instance, 

I couldn't understand what you mean here, (may be because my poor knowledge with the
terminology)

>you will have
> to pass the instance in explicitly as the self argument.  For example:

> B.foo(x)  # calls B.foo directly with instance x

This is interesting, Now I kind of vaguely getting why we keep 'self' argument
around in each method.

Thanks you
-- 
YYR