[Tutor] help with 'organization'

[John]

Ha! Inheritance!

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:51 PM, John <washakie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I am writing a module that will have two classes ('runners') I
> am calling them, as they will ultimately use subprocess to run a
> command line program, so they are basically option parsers, etc...
>
> As I wrote the second 'runner', I realized many of the methods are
> going to be the same as the first, so I would actually like to create
> a third class that has the methods which are mutual between the two.
> The problem are the 'self' calls....
>
> I know a code example might help, so I try to show it here (my code
> I'm afraid is too complex and ugly at the moment). You can see the it
> fails because MyTools doesn't have 'this' attribute...
>
> class MyTools:
>    def f(self, this):
>        print(this)
>
>    def foo(self):
>        this = self.this
>        print(this)
>
> class MyProcess:
>    def __init__(self):
>        self.tools = MyTools()
>
>        self.this = 'My Process, this'
>
>        self.tools.f(self.this)
>
>        self.tools.foo()
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>    mp = MyProcess()
>



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