How does a method of a subclass become a method of the base class?

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2023-03-27 01:53:49 +0200, Jen Kris via Python-list wrote:
> But that brings up a new question.  I can create a class instance with
> x = BinaryConstraint(), but what happens when I have a line like
> "EqualityConstraint(prev, v, Strength.REQUIRED)"?

If that is the whole statement it will create a new object of class
EqualityConstraint and immediately discard it. That may have some useful
side effect (for example the object may add itself to a list of
constraints) but this is not apparent from this line.

        hp

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