How to extend inner classes?

[Alex Martelli]

Kay Schluehr <kayschluehr at gmx.de> wrote:

> You can define a class variable Pos with the class Pos as its value
> 
> class PeriodicGrid :
>     class Pos:
>       pass            
>     Pos = Pos 
> 
> >>> grid = PeriodicGrid()
> >>> grid.Pos()
> <__main__.Pos instance at 0x00EEFAD0>

You can, but that 'Pos = Pos' statement in this code is just as
redundant and useless as it appears.  In every aspect, the behavior will
be exactly identical if you remove that assignment.


Alex