Question about subclassing and overriding methods

[Frank Millman]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On 7 Sep 2006 01:33:30 -0700, "Frank Millman" <frank at chagford.com>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
> > In my particular case, when I do subclass Test, y is always True.
> > Therefore I can rewrite it like this -
> >
> > class Test2(Test):
> >     def __init__(self,x):
> >         Test.__init__(self,x,True)
> >     def getx2(self):
> >         print x*3
> >
> > As you suggested, I redefine getx2 instead of getx, and it works as I
> > want.
> >
> > Slightly less insane, I hope ;-)
> >
>
> 	I do hope this is just a simplified example <G>
>
> 	Otherwise I'd have implemented it the other way around -- don't
> compute the value on each get, but rather on the initialization
>

Thanks for the reply, Dennis. In fact, my real requirement has got
nothing to do with computing a value. That was just a way of
illustrating my need to call a different version of a method depending
on certain factors.

I have since come up with a different approach, which I have explained
in a new thread. It is still a bit complicated, so I would still
appreciate any comments on how to simplify it.

Frank