Inheritance when defining a class within a class

Question

Will my class inherit all of the properties of the main class when it's defined within it? My code is:

class DashboardPage(BasePage):

    def __ini__(self,driver):
        super().__init__(driver)

    class MeetingsPage():

        def createMeeting(self):
            pass

        def editMeeting(self):
            pass

    class EmailsPage():

        def writeEmail(self):
            pass

Will the MeetingsPage/EmailPage inherit properties/methods of the BasePage?

Answer 1

In Python the syntax for a derived class definition looks like DerivedClassName(BaseClassName): or multiple inheritance class DerivedClassName(Base1, Base2, Base3): . As you can see your classes (MeetingsPage/EmailPage) have not been derived from BasePage . So they do not inherit any properties and methods from BasePage .

Read, please, doc https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/classes.html#inheritance

Answer 2

No. You are only restricting the scope. If you want the nested class to inherit from a base class, do so as normal (eg class X(Y): ).

Answer 3

No it will not. A nested class behaves like any "outer" (un-nested) class. It can be instantiated like this.

Ex: obj = DashboardPage().MeetingsPage()

The methods of a nested class may access the instance attributes of the nested class instance but not of any outer class instance.