[Tutor] Calling private base class methods
Andreas Kostyrka
andreas at kostyrka.org
Thu Apr 12 11:04:44 CEST 2007
* Jorgen Bodde <jorgen.maillist at gmail.com> [070412 10:57]:
> Hi All,
>
> Now that I am really diving into Python, I encounter a lot of things
> that us newbies find difficult to get right. I thought I understood
> how super() worked, but with 'private' members it does not seem to
> work. For example;
Rename your __baseMethod to _baseMethod.
Or call it as _A__baseMethod.
Basically __ just provokes name mangling.
Andreas
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