Guido van Rossum wrote:

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and the cumbersome way in which you have to invoke super.

Given Python's dynamic nature I couldn't think of a way to make it less cumbersome. I see you tried (see below) and couldn't either. At this point I tend to say "put up or shut up."

Well, there's my autosuper recipe you've seen before: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/286195 which does basically what Philip descibes ...

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import autosuper

class A (autosuper.autosuper): ... def test (self, a): ... print 'A.test: %s' % (a,) ... class B (A): ... def test (self, a): ... print 'B.test: %s' % (a,) ... self.super(a + 1) ... class C (A): ... def test (self, a): ... print 'C.test: %s' % (a,) ... self.super.test(a + 1) ... class D (B, C): ... def test (self, a): ... print 'D.test: %s' % (a,) ... self.super(a + 1) ... D().test(1) D.test: 1 B.test: 2 C.test: 3 A.test: 4

It uses sys._getframe() of course ... Tim Delaney