Quotes About Inheritance

All the statements inside the class statement run when the class statement itself runs (not when the class is later called to make an instance).

the attributes of a namespace object are usually implemented as dictionaries, and class inheritance trees are (generally speaking) just dictionaries with links to other dictionaries.

Assignments to instance attributes create or change the names in the instance, rather than in the shared class. More generally, inheritance searches occur only on attribute references, not on assignment:

composites. We'll explore this pattern in more detail in Chapter 31, which is really more about design than about Python. As a quick example, though, we could use this composition idea to code our Manager extension by embedding a Person, instead of inheriting from it.

polymorphism means that the meaning of an operation depends on the object being operated on.

In a sense, a module is like a single-instance class, without inheritance, which corresponds to an entire file of code.

getattr employs the inheritance search protocol, and some of the names we're listing here are not stored on the instance itself.

President Ronald Reagan cautioned that "[f]reedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."3

Who knows what somber ancestor had passed on to me this talent, this precocious ear for loss? For a while, because of it, I misheard almost everything.

In a sense we are born in hock: with the national debt hovering around $ 18 trillion, each new baby delivered in America takes her first breath owing approximately $ 57,000.

That's how it always was and always will be, he thought a little bitterly. We come in with nothing, and we go out with nothing.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others—his last breath.

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

My dad is funny in his own way, and so is my brother, but in terms of legitimately making a lot of people laugh, that's my mom. I inherit my sense of comedy from her.

We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

Education : a debt due from present to future generations.

We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.