> Suppose I have class ShoppingCart which has one method called buy(), > and class Buyer who has one reference to ShoppingCart... Can I also > have method buy() in class Buyer, which will then called > ShoppingCard.buy(), and also do some other stuff? Is this legal > design pattern, have methods with same name?
Yes, something like this is perfectly fine. class ShoppingCart( object ): def buy( self ): print 'buy in shoppingcart' class Buyer( object ): def __init__( self, cart ): self.cart = cart def buy( self ): print 'buy in buyer' self.cart.buy( ) print 'some extra stuff' acart = ShoppingCart( ) abuyer = Buyer( cart=acart ) abuyer.buy( ) HTH, Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list