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Subject: Re: Everything is an object in python - object class and type class
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> The classic response to "Super Considered Harmful" for those who may be
> interested is
> https://rhettinger.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/super-considered-super/ and
> recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOglTERPEo

I feel slightly cheated. In the video he promises to show how to do
dependency injection using super, but in both of the examples given,
every instance of "super()" could simply be replaced with "self" and
the result would be the same. That's just taking advantage of the MRO,
not super.