mutlifile inheritance problem

[Peter Cacioppi]

One more comment - my trick has some utility with multiple inheritance, but you really need to understand super() to and method resolution ordering in that case (as, I suppose, you ought to whenever you cross the Rubicon beyond single inheritance). So it's a nice trick but YMMV

On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 4:54:00 PM UTC-7, Peter Cacioppi wrote:
> This is a very old topic, but here is a trick for single inheritance. (The problem you allude to isn't restricted to multiple inheritance).
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> Any class with a single parent simply defines this function.
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>     def mySuper(self) : 
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>         return super(self.__class__, self)
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> And then any parent function be referenced like
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>     self.mySuper().foo()
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> This includes __init__.
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> You can read more here.
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> http://atlee.ca/blog/posts/blog20081121python-reload-danger-here-be-dragons.html
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> On Thursday, March 21, 2002 2:03:23 PM UTC-7, Marc wrote:
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> > I have classes defined in different files and would like to inherit
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> > from a class in file A.py for a class in file B.py but am running into
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> > problems.  I'm using Python 1.5.2 on Windows NT
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> > 
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> > Here's a specific example:
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> > ************************
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> > file cbase01.py:
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> > 
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> > class CBase:
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> > 
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> >     def __init__(self):
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> >         self.cclass = None
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> >         print "cbase"
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> > 
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> > class CImStream(CBase):
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> > 
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> >     def __init(self):
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> >         CBase.__init__(self)
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> >         print "CImStream"
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> > 
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> > *************************
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> > in file wrappers_A01.py: 
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> > 
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> > import cbase01
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> > reload(cbase01)
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> > 
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> > class ImStream_SavedBitmaps(cbase01.CImStream):
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> > 
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> >     def __init__(self):
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> >         cbase.CImStream.__init__(self)
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> >         print "SavedBitmaps"
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> > 
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> > **************************
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> > in file sequencer01.py
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> > 
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> > import cbase01    # the offending lines, program works 
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> > reload(cbase01)   # if I comment these out.
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> > 
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> > class Sequencer:
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> >     def Append(self, item):
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> >         pass
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> > *****************************
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> > in test02.py
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> > 
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> > import wrappers_A01
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> > reload(wrappers_A01)
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> > 
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> > import sequencer01
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> > reload(sequencer01)
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> > 
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> > x0 = wrappers_A01.ImStream_SavedBitmaps()
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> > ***************************************************************
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> > 
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> > If I run test02 I get the traceback
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> > Traceback (innermost last):
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> >   File "<string>", line 1, in ?
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> >   File "D:\PythonCode\pna\eyeTracking\tests\test02.py", line 15, in ?
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> >     x0 = wrappers_A01.ImStream_SavedBitmaps()
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> >   File "D:\PythonCode\pna\eyeTracking\tests\wrappers_A01.py", line 21,
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> > in __init__
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> >     cbase.CImStream.__init__(self)
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> > TypeError: unbound method must be called with class instance 1st
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> > argument
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> > Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
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> > 
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> > Thanks,
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> > Marc