A question about Python Classes

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

chad <cdalten at gmail.com> writes:

> Let's say I have the following....
>
> class BaseHandler:
>     def foo(self):
>         print "Hello"
>
> class HomeHandler(BaseHandler):
>     pass
>
>
> Then I do the following...
>
> test = HomeHandler()
> test.foo()
>
> How can HomeHandler call foo() when I never created an instance of
> BaseHandler?

But you created one!

test is an instance of HomeHandler, which is a subclass of BaseHandler,
so test is also an instance of BaseHandler.

A subclass represents a subset of the instances of its super class.

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