[Tutor] Using superclass __init__ method

[Jan Eden]

Kent Johnson wrote on 22.09.2005:

>This is standard behavior for any class attribute - if it's not
>defined in the derived class, the base class is checked. It's not
>special for __init__.
>
>I can't find a comprehensive reference for the way attribute lookup
>works - anyone else?

Well, I did know that any attribute used explicitly with a class instance is looked up in the class, then the base class etc:

class Base:
    variable = 1
    
class Child(Base):
    pass

child = Child()
print child.variable
1

What I did not know was that the __init__ method behaves the same way - i.e. that Python looks for __init__ upon instantiation until it finds one.

Thanks,

Jan
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