> What happens when aliases collide with proper attributes? Could you have > an attribute 'foo', combined with an attribute 'bar' with alias 'foo'? If > so, how would that work? >
Using a ChainMap makes this choice for us. The first level dictionary-- which would contain the attribute with the name collision-- wins. > > What happens when a subclass of Foo adds an attribute that masks an alias > defined for an attribute of Foo? > Again, the child attribute wins because ChainMap.
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