christopherlmarshall at yahoo.com wrote: > Now, 'i' might have already been defined by A or by the call to > A.__init__() so if you define it without knowing that, you could be > changing the behavior of A's methods in unknown ways, which is > obviously a bad thing. http://docs.python.org/tut/node11.html#SECTION0011600000000000000000 </F>