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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:26:52 -0600
Subject: Re: What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Mostly I'm saying that super() is badly named.
>>
>> What else would you call a function that does lookups on the current
>> object's superclasses?
>
> ^.  You make a symbol for it.  ^__init__(foo, bar)

On the one hand, eww.

On the other hand, with the changes to super in Python 3 to make it
more magical, it might as well be syntax.