[Zope-dev] The object hierarchy

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Pelletier [mailto:mike@zopeware.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 2:51 PM
> To: Michael Collins
> Cc: zope-dev@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] The object hierarchy
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Michael Collins wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to navigate around the object hieararchy, and I 
> can find a
> > single object's subobjects by using hasattr and so on, but 
> what if I want
> > to navigate to a different position in the hieararchy?  As 
> far as I can
> > tell, objects don't have a pointer to their parent
> 
>     In fact, they do.  It's 'aq_parent'.
> 

If the parent inherits ExtensionClass.Base and the child inherits
Acquisition.Implicit (or Explicit).  'aq_parent' is an attribute of an
acquisition wrapped object.

-Michel

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