How to call a property of the base class if this property is being overwritten in the derived class?

Question

I\'m changing some classes of mine from an extensive use of getters and setters to a more pythonic use of properties.

But now I\'m stuck because some of my previous

Answer 1

    class Base(object):
      def method(self):
        print "Base method was called"

    class Derived(Base):
      def method(self):
        super(Derived,self).method()
        print "Derived method was called"

    d = Derived()
    d.method()

(that is unless I am missing something from your explanation)