Fwd: Things to Know About Super

Had a brief offline discussion with Michele - forwarding. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: michele.simionato@gmail.com <michele.simionato@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:13 AM On Aug 24, 3:43 pm, "Matt Giuca" <matt.gi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Michele,
Do you have a URL for this blog?
Sorry, here it is: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogger=micheles ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matt Giuca <matt.giuca@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:15 AM I skimmed (will read in detail later). As an "intermediate" (I'll describe myself as) Python developer, I tend not to use/understand super (I just call baseclassname.methodname(self,...) directly, so I guess I'm the target audience of this article. It's good - very informative and thorough. It's a bit too informal, personal, and opinionative to be used as "documentation" IMHO but it could certainly be cleaned up without being rewritten. Of interest though, is this: "The first sentence is just plain wrong: super does not return the superclass."
Also Michele, looks as if super in Python 3 works about the same but has the additional feature of supporting 0 arguments, in which case it defaults to super(this_class, first_arg). (Does not create unbound super objects). Matt
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