[Python-Dev] Things to Know About Super

[Nick Coghlan]

average wrote:
> It seems that the frustration with super revolves around how Python
> currently conflates (as well as many users) two very different types
> of inheritance, both "is-a" and "has-a" (or compositional)
> inheritance.  Unfortunately, Python assists this confusion because the
> language doesn't provide a distinct enough way to differentiate
> between them.

has-a should be modelling with attributes, not inheritance. The latter
relationship should always mean is-a (even for mixins).

Cheers,
Nick.

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