Giovanni Bajo <rasky@develer.com> wrote:
On 29/04/2007 17.04, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Nearly always wrong? You must be kidding. There are tons of reasons to call your super method with modified arguments. E.g. clipping, transforming, ...
Really? http://fuhm.net/super-harmful/
Hmmm. I've just counted more than 1600 usages of `super` in my sandbox. And all my tests pass. How does that square with the title of the rant you quote: Python's Super is nifty, but you can't use it ? Although the rest of `super-harmful` is slightly better than the title, the premise of James Knight is utterly wrong: Note that the __init__ method is not special -- the same thing happens with any method -- Christian Tanzer http://www.c-tanzer.at/