A question about Python Classes

Thu Apr 21 14:34:49 EDT 2011

chad wrote:
> 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?

You don't need to create an instance of BaseHandler. You have the
class, Python knows you have the class -- Python will look there if the
subclasses lack an attribute.
~Ethan~