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10 Jun
2022
10 Jun
'22
11:34 a.m.
lxml v.4.9 cssselect.py:CSSSelector.__init__ calls on `etree.XPath.__init__(self, path, namespaces=namespaces)` to initialize the parent class. Is there a reason why `super()` or even `super(CSSSelector, self)__init__...` is not used? I bring this up as if I attempt to monkey patch (private project) `etree.XPath.__init__` the current code causes an error ``` TypeError: super(type, obj): obj must be an instance or subtype of type ``` while replacing it with the suggested use of `super()` fixes my error.