Can a child access parent attributes if that child added post-hoc as an attribute to the parent?

[Prasad, Ramit]

Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Prasad, Ramit
> <ramit.prasad at jpmorgan.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:
> > Bitswapper wrote:
> >>
> >> So I have a parent and child class:
> >>
> >>
> >> class Map(object):
> >>     def __init__(self, name=''):
> >>         self.mapName = name
> >>         self.rules = {}
> >>
> >> class Rule(Map):
> >>     def __init__(self, number):
> >>         Map.__init__(self)
> >>         self.number = number
> >
> > This means that rules will never have a name. I think you need
> >       def __init__(self, name='', number=None):
> >           Map.__init__(self, name)
> >           self.number = number
> 
> No, that's still wrong.  The OP talks abut maps having names, not
> rules having names.  Unless a Rule is-a Map, which sounds unlikely,
> Rule should not be inheriting from Map in the first place.
> 

Good point. Composition definitely makes more sense as I was
confused by how the inheritance was supposed to work anyway. :)


~Ramit



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