A question about Python Classes

Thu Apr 21 13:12:11 EDT 2011

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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