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return an object of a different class

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Wed Feb 16 01:03:20 EST 2011 
spam at uce.gov writes:

> I didn't explain my problem, chose a terrible example. This is more
> what I'm trying to do:

Unfortunately, it's still very contrived, and the names don't give any
suggestion as to what you're trying to achieve. Can you improve on that?

> class ThingyTypeA:
>   def __init__(self):
>     # do some further extraction specific to type A
>     further_extract()
>
>
> class ThingyTypeB:
>   def __init__(self):
>     # do some further extraction specific to type B
>     further_extract()

Perhaps you want those classes to inherit from your base class. Have you
done the Python tutorial? It covers inheritance and how to use it.

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