Inheritance and Inner/Nested Classes

[Paul Morrow]

Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> 
> Well, the problem is that the way you say you want spell it is mutating a
> shared object:
> 
>     class Child(Parent):
>         Foo.baz = 'hello from Child.Foo'
> 
> If you want 'Foo' in Child to be a different object to the Foo in Parent,
> then you need to somehow make it be a different object, which means
> assigning to 'Foo' in Child's namespace.  The simplest and clearest way to
> do that is to explicitly subclass with "class Foo(Parent.Foo): ...".
> 
> -Andrew.
> 

Yes, I think that you may be right.  But oh the tempation to look into 
metaclasses for this... :)

Thanks.