Accessing parent objects

Sun Mar 25 10:40:04 EDT 2018

On 2018年3月25日 08:09:02 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 5:46 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> On 2018年3月25日 06:11:53 -0500, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
>>> 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.
>> No, he's merely confusing the concept of nested classes in Python with
> nested classes in Java, which actually supports this magic.
>> To the OP: Python isn't Java. Nested classes in Python work like
> "static" nested classes in Java.

TIL, thanks.
(I'm not sure exactly what I've learned, but I learned *something* about 
nested classes in Java.)
-- 
Steve