Inheritance Confusion

[Robin Becker]

In article <Xns90965FBC2B2A0atodddexterpinioncom at 203.2.194.51>, Andy
Todd <atodd at spam.free.email.com> writes
>All,
>
><Obligatory grovel>
>I apologise in advance for being a mere procedural programmer in the
>wonderful world of oo, but I am confused. 
></Obligatory grovel>
>
>My following script doesn't do what *I* expect it to, can someone please
>help me by explaining why; 
>
>--
>
>class A:
>    def __init__(self):
>        self.x = "blah blah"
>
>class B(A):
>    def _init__(self):
>        A.__init__(self)
>        self.y = "boo boo"
>
>>>> wibble=B()
>>>> dir(wibble)
>['x']
>
>--
>
strange, I see 
PythonWin 2.0 (#8, Oct 16 2000, 17:27:58) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32.Portions Copyright 1994-2001 Mark Hammond (MarkH at ActiveState.com)
- see 'Help/About PythonWin' for further copyright information.
>>> class A:
...     def __init__(self):
...             self.x = 1
...             
>>> class B(A):
...     def __init__(self):
...             A.__init__(self)
...             self.y  = 2
...             
>>> b = B()>
>> dir(b)
['x', 'y']
>>> 
-- 
Robin Becker