Re: Updated blog post on how to use super()

From	Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Updated blog post on how to use super()
Date	2011-06-02 20:58 +0000
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Billy Mays <noway@nohow.com> wrote:

> I read this when it was on HN the other day, but I still don't see what 
> is special about super().  It seems (from your post) to just be a stand 
> in for the super class name?  Is there something special I missed?
> 
Consider any diamond hierarchy:

class Base(object): pass
class A(Base): pass
class B(Base): pass
class C(A, B): pass

If you have an instance of C, then in a method in A super() could refer to 
a method in B which is not a base class of A.

If you have an instance of A then the sampe super() reference in one of A's 
methods refers to the method in Base.

-- 
Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com

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Updated blog post on how to use super() Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-05-31 19:44 -0700
  Re: Updated blog post on how to use super() Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-01 14:26 +1000
  Re: Updated blog post on how to use super() Billy Mays <noway@nohow.com> - 2011-06-01 09:03 -0400
    Re: Updated blog post on how to use super() Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-01 10:42 -0600
      Re: Updated blog post on how to use super() Billy Mays <noway@nohow.com> - 2011-06-01 12:46 -0400
        Re: Updated blog post on how to use super() Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-01 11:06 -0600
        Re: Updated blog post on how to use super() Chris Torek <nospam@torek.net> - 2011-06-01 17:43 +0000
    Re: Updated blog post on how to use super() Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2011-06-02 20:58 +0000

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