inheriting variables

[Jp Calderone]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 10:34:08AM +0000, Haran Shivanan wrote:
> This seems like a fairly straight forward thing but I'm not sure about how
> to implement it.
> I have a base class from which I'm deriving several new classes:
> class A:
> 	mem_a=0
> 	mem_b=1
> class B(A):pass
> 
> I want B to inherit mem_a and mem_b from A without my having to explicit do
> something like:
> 
> self.mem_a = 0
> 
> in the constructor for class B.

    class A:
        a = 0
        b = 1

    class B(A):
        pass

    b = B()
    print b.a, b.b

  Isn't this the behavior you desire?  If not, could you clarify your
question?

  Jp

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