(beginners) howto ascribe _all_ fields of parent class to child class?

[dmitrey]

Hi all,
I'm rewriting some code from other language to Python; can anyone
explain me which way is the simpliest:
I have
class C1():
def __init__(self):
self.a = 5

class C2(C1):
def __init__(self):
self.b = 8

c = C2()
print c.b#prints 8
print c.a#prints error, because field a is absent

so how can I wrote the code that I'll got all class C1 fields (not
only funcs)

Thank you in advance,
Dmitrey

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi all,
I'm rewriting some code from other language to Python; can anyone
explain me which way is the simpliest:
I have
class C1():
def __init__(self):
self.a = 5

class C2(C1):
def __init__(self):
self.b = 8

c = C2()
print c.b#prints 8
print c.a#prints error, because field a is absent

so how can I wrote the code that I'll got all class C1 fields (not
only funcs)

You need to call the super classes __init__-method. There are several
ways to do so, in your case

class C2(C1):
def __init__(self):
C1.__init__(self)
self.b = 8

should do the trick.

DIEZ

 

[Steve Holden]

Hi all,
I'm rewriting some code from other language to Python; can anyone
explain me which way is the simpliest:
I have
class C1():
def __init__(self):
self.a = 5

class C2(C1):
def __init__(self):
self.b = 8

c = C2()
print c.b#prints 8
print c.a#prints error, because field a is absent

so how can I wrote the code that I'll got all class C1 fields (not
only funcs)

Thank you in advance,
Dmitrey

The only problem here is that your subclass doesn't call the __init__
method of the superclass. Rewrite your C2 definition to read

class C2(C1):
def __init__(self):
C1.__init__(self)
self.b = 8

and you should find your example works as you want.

regards
Steve
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