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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 20:33:37 -0600
Subject: Re: super in Python 3 and variadic arguments
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On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> One of the side-effects of this being a hack is that this doesn't work:
>
> class X(Y):
>     def method(self, arg):
>         f = super
>         f().method(arg)

Actually, that works just fine.  The compiler sees that super is
accessed within the method and creates the closure necessary to make
it work.  This does fail, however:

f = super
class X(Y):
    def method(self, arg):
        f().method(arg)