Alias for an attribute defined in a superclass

[Calvin Spealman]

Sounds like you're just going to end up with more confusing code
having multiple ways to refer to the exact same thing. Why?

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Howdy all,
>
> I want to inherit from a class, and define aliases for many of its
> attributes. How can I refer to “the attribute that will be available by
> name ‘spam’ once this class is defined”?
>
>    class Foo(object):
>        def spam(self):
>            pass
>
>        def eggs(self):
>            pass
>
>    class Bar(Foo):
>        beans = Foo.spam
>        mash = Foo.eggs
>
> Is that the right way to do it? Will that leave me open to “unbound
> method” or “is not an instance of ‘Bar’” or other problems when using
> ‘Bar.beans’?
>
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