[Tutor] super() and inherited attributes?

Marcus Goldfish magoldfish at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 06:58:41 CEST 2005


Hi,

The following example doesn't work as I would like-- the child
instance doesn't expose the attribute set in the parent.  Can someone
point out what I am missing?

Thanks,
Marcus


class Parent(object):
   def __init__(self, name="I am a parent"):
      self.name = name

class Child(Parent):
   def __init__(self, number):
      super(Parent, self).__init__("I am a child")
      self.number = number

# I would like it to produce the following:
>> c = Child(23)
>> c.number
23
>> c.name
"I am a child"

# but I 'AttributeError: 'Child' object has no attribute 'name''


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