Michael Foord wrote:
On 15/04/2011 02:23, Steven D'Aprano wrote: [...]
If we treat django's failure to use super as a bug, you want the Python language to work-around that bug so that:
What you say (that this particular circumstance could be treated as a bug in django) is true, however consider the "recently" introduced problem caused by object.__init__ not taking arguments. This makes it impossible to use super correctly in various circumstances. [...] It is impossible to inherit from both C and A and have all parent __init__ methods called correctly. Changing the semantics of super as described would fix this problem.
So you say. I don't have an an opinion on whether or not you are technically correct, but adding DWIM black-magic to super scares me. It scares me even if it were guaranteed to *only* apply to __init__, but if it applied to arbitrary methods, it frankly terrifies me. If it were limited to only apply to __init__, there would be a constant stream of requests that we loosen the restriction and "make super just work" for all methods, despite the dangers of DWIM code. -- Steven