Classes question

[Aahz]

In article <20021101045342.GA1737 at ens-lyon.fr>,
Emmanuel Jeandel  <E_Jeandel at mail.dotcom.fr> wrote:
>Il est arrivé, un jour, à Aahz d'écrire :
>> In article <20021031205456.GA8006 at ens-lyon.fr>,
>> Emmanuel Jeandel  <E_Jeandel at mail.dotcom.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>>I have the following code : 
>>>
>>>class A:
>>>	  def __init__(self):
>>>	  	  pass
>>>
>>>	  def f(self):
>>>	  	  self.x = B()
>>>
>>>class B(A):
>>>	  def __init__(self):
>>>	  	  A.__init__(self)
>>>
>>>
>>>I would like to have the class A and the class B in two differents files.
>>>Is it possible ? 
>>>I think that it is not directly possible, but if there is a mean with a
>>>small change in the code...
>> 
>> Assuming you put the code for A in classA.py, you can make class B work
>> by adding the line
>> 
>> from classA import A
>> 
>> before the "class B" statement.
>
>Obviously no. Please note that A needs to know about B in this example
>(line: self.x = B() in the class A).

Ouch.  I can think of several ways around this, but your current
question is too ambiguous to have any idea about the best way.  What
you're doing is pretty ugly.  
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