[Tutor] Class inheiritance question

[D-Man]

Yes!  That's where the power of iheritance and polymorphism lie.


On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 05:17:35PM -0600, Brad Chandler wrote:
> I have created a sub class called Positionrlgn of a base class called
> Position. I've redefinded one of the functions successfully, but now I need
> to redefine a variable. How do I redefine a value which is set in the
> __init__ function.
> 
> For example, my base class starts like this:
> 
> class Position:
>     def __init__(self, dbrow):
>         self.currentsalary=dbrow[0]
> 
> my sub class starts like this:
> 
> class Positionrlgn(projectclass.Position):
	def __init__( sef , dbrow ) :
		# first call the parent's ctor 
		# this will set currentsalary and everything else as
		# before
		Position.__init__( self , dbrow )

		# now change current salary to whatever the new value
		# should be
		self.currentsalary = 2000000

> 
> Can I modify the __init__ function so that only the one value is altered and
> the rest are left intact?

-D