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Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature

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Nagy László Zsolt <gandalf@shopzeus.com> writes:

> > [...] 
> >> class BootstrapDesktop(BootstrapWidget, BaseDesktop):
> >>     def __init__(self, appserver, session):
> >>         # there is NOTHING else here, it just connects bootstrap widget
> >> implementation with desktop methods
> >>         super(BootstrapDesktop, self).__init__(appserver, session)
> > The correct way to do that is to simply not define an __init__ method at
> > all.
> But I have to initialize some default attributes.

Then the statement “there is NOTHING else here” must be false. Either
the custom ‘__init__’ does something useful, or it doesn't.

> > See this explanation of C3 linearisation here:
> >
> > https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.3/mro/
> I do not use diamond shapes in my hierarchy, I guess that does not
> affect me. I may be wrong.

With classes all inheriting ultimately from ‘object’ (as all Python 3
classes do, and as all current Python 2 classes should), mutliple
inheritance inevitably places your classes in a diamond inheritance
pattern. And, what's more, you can't know when writing a class whether
it participates in a multiple inheritance hierarchy!

So in practice you must write every class so that it will behave well in
a diamond inheritance pattern.

All this is covered in Raymond Hettinger's material, so it's best that I
just leave you to read that.

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Ben Finney

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Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Nagy László Zsolt <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2016-05-31 18:10 +0200
  Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-01 12:18 +1000
    Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Nagy László Zsolt <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2016-06-03 14:10 +0200
      Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-06-04 13:06 +1200
        Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-04 12:51 +1000
          Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-06-04 23:50 +1200
        Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 23:05 -0600
          Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-06-04 23:52 +1200
            Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-04 23:46 +1000
              Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Nagy László Zsolt <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2016-06-04 16:42 +0200
    Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-06-03 22:21 +1000
      Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-06-04 13:10 +1200
    Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Nagy László Zsolt <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2016-06-03 14:14 +0200
    Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Nagy László Zsolt <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2016-06-03 14:57 +0200
    Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Nagy László Zsolt <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2016-06-03 16:06 +0200
    Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 08:39 -0600
    Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 15:33 +0000
    Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Nagy László Zsolt <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2016-06-03 17:59 +0200
    Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 16:28 +0000
    Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-06-04 06:16 +1000
    Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-06-04 06:19 +1000
    Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 15:53 -0600
    Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-06-04 10:44 +1000

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