Newbie: Inheritance of accessors

[Will Fitzgerald]

Mark McEahern wrote:

>[Will Fitzgerald]
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>>I'm curious about accessors being inherited from parent classes. Given 
>>the code that follows, and I create an instance:
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>> e=S()
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>>How do I access the inherited default 'x' in e (inherited from R)?
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>In the most natural way imaginable, of course:
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>  e.x = 1
>  print e.x
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>etc.
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Thank you very much for your reply.

I guess I should have been clearer. I meant reading the inherited 
*default* value from the parent class. Given the same code (repeated 
below), I see:

 >>> q = R()
 >>> print q.x
0
 >>> e = S()
 >>> print e.x
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "<stdin>", line 5, in getx
AttributeError: 'S' object has no attribute '_R__x'
 >>>

Can e *not* inherit to the default value? Or is there a way to call the 
__init__ method for R's superclass (so that 'x' in initialized?).

WF