Create an alias to an attribute on superclass

[Sean DiZazzo]

On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 10:23:06 AM UTC-8, Sean DiZazzo wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I basically just want to create an alias to an attribute on an item's superclass.  So that after I create the subclass object, I can access the alias attribute to get the value back.
> 
> <pre>
> class Superclass(object):
>     def __init__(self, value):
>         """
>             I want to pass x by reference, so that any time
>             x on the subclass is updated, so is the alias here
>         """
>         self.alias = value
> 
> class Subclass(Superclass):
>     def __init__(self, x):
>         self.x = x
>         Superclass.__init__(self, self.x)
> 
>     def __repr__(self):
>         return "x: %s\nalias: %s" % (self.x, self.alias)
> 
> 
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     foo = Subclass(1)
>     print foo.alias
> 
>     foo.x = 6
>     # Should return 6 !!!
>     print foo.alias
> 
> </pre>

Yep.  Thats it.  Thank you guys!!