Accessing parent objects
Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Sun Mar 25 07:46:53 EDT 2018
On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 06:11:53 -0500, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
> On 03/24/2018 06:54 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 1:20:24 PM UTC-5, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
>>>> I tried various forms of super() but that didn't seem to work.
>>
>> Define "doesn't see to work".
>
> It accesses the parent class. I want to access the parent object.
Ah. Well, no wonder it doesn't work: you're confusing the OO inheritance
concept of "parent" (a superclass) with whatever relationship you have
between one instance and another instance. Just because they share the
same name doesn't make them the same concept.
--
Steve
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