Michael Foord wrote:
consider the "recently" introduced problem caused by object.__init__ not taking arguments. This makes it impossible to use super correctly in various circumstances.
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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.
I don't see how, because auto-super-calling would eventually end up trying to call object.__init__ with arguments and fail. You might think to "fix" this by making a special case of object.__init__ and refraining from calling it. But the same problem arises in a more general way whenever some class in the mix has a method with the right name but the wrong signature, which is likely to happen if you try to mix classes that weren't designed to be mixed together. -- Greg