[Baypiggies] deleting an inherited attribute?

[Rob Miller]

hi,

i have a situation where one of my classes is inheriting an attribute defined 
at the class level of one of my base classes, like so:

class SuperClass:
     value = 'Foo'

class MyClass(SuperClass):
     pass

the problem is that i don't need the 'value' attribute at all, and in fact its 
very existence is causing problems with some other dependency code.  there is 
a call elsewhere that is doing something like this:

myinstance = MyClass()
if hasattr(myinstance, 'value'):
     print "this is the wrong result"
else:
     print "this is what i want to happen"

is there some way to remove the inherited attribute from MyClass's namespace? 
  i've tried putting 'del MyClass.value' or 'del self.value' in MyClass's 
__init__ method, but i get AttributeErrors.  'del SuperClass.value' works, of 
course, but that would then impact SuperClass itself, and all of the other 
consumers of SuperClass, which won't do.

any suggestions?

-r