HTTPserver: how to access variables of a higher class?

[Tom P]

On 04/05/2013 02:27 PM, Dylan Evans wrote:
> On 05/04/2013 9:09 PM, "Tom P" <werotizy at freent.dd> wrote:
>>
>> First, here's a sample test program:
>> <code>
>> import sys
>> from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
>>
>> class MyRequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler, object):
>>      def do_GET(self):
>>          top_self = super(MyRequestHandler, self) # try to access
> MyWebServer instance
>>          self.send_response(200)
>>          self.send_header('Content-type',        'text/html')
>>          self.end_headers()
>>          self.wfile.write("thanks for trying, but I'd like to get at
> self.foo and self.bar")
>>          return
>>
>> class MyWebServer(object):
>>      def __init__(self):
>>          self.foo = "foo"  # these are what I want to access from inside
> do_GET
>>          self.bar = "bar"
>>          self.httpd = HTTPServer(('127.0.0.1', 8000), MyRequestHandler)
>>          sa = self.httpd.socket.getsockname()
>>          print "Serving HTTP on", sa[0], "port", sa[1], "..."
>>
>>      def runIt(self):
>>          self.httpd.serve_forever()
>>
>> server = MyWebServer()
>> server.runIt()
>>
>> </code>
>>
>> I want to access the foo and bar variables from do_GET, but I can't
> figure out how. I suppose this is something to do with new-style vs.
> old-style classes, but I lost for a solution.
>
> Consider inheriting HTTPServer in MyWebServer which is passed to the
> request handler.
>
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>

I keep getting the same problem - if inherit from any of these classes 
in BaseHTTPServer and try to use super(class, self) to initiate the 
higher class, I get the error "TypeError: must be type, not classobj" - 
in other words, these are old-style classes.
That means that in this call -
self.httpd = MyHTTPServer(('127.0.0.1', 8000), MyRequestHandler)

there doesn't seem to be a way to define a
  class MyHTTPServer(HTTPServer)