Steven D'Aprano writes:
In any case, how do you know what "most people" think? Have you done a survey, or are you just guessing? I haven't done a survey, but I'm getting one ready, I also wanna let you all have a read at it before running it, so we can all agree the data we would get from it are meaningful, if that's okay with you.
I am not guessing either however, knowledge is formed in a somewhat deterministic way, and UX design to some extent plays a role in it. You are very likely to form knowledge coherent with what you experience, and the most experience in case of use of super is simple inheritance, which means you're likely to learn a lot about super and SI before you face a MI case, in which, you'd have only the SI experience to build off of an expectation.
Actually, we are defining arguments to be passed: the listed superclasses are passed on to the class metaclass as a tuple, which preserves order, and the MRO is generated from that ordered tuple. Same problem as before, this is definitely not obvious to most python users, they never have to dive in those metaclasses logics, and therefore, it can't play a role in their understanding of what's happening at class definition. So again, the most common intuition on what happens at class definition would would be very different from the most common intuition about method definition / calls. Essentially, I'm saying that most people intuition is something, and you're answering that this thing almost no one knows about shows otherwise. It doesn't, since they don't know about it. You get my point.