reposting -- things go to heck when posts are forwarded through google groups :-( -CHB On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 8:32 AM Christopher Barker <pythonchb@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 2:32 AM Neil Girdhar <mistersheik@gmail.com> wrote:

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Alternatively, the need for an overriding implementation to call super could be marked by a different decorator.

Looking back on the old "Super considered [Harmful | Super]" discussions, it was clear that the fact that a class hierarchy uses super() is part if its API, and:

and every occurrence of the method needs to use super()

So +1 on having an explicit way to specify that super should be used in subclasses, rather than having to look in documentation or the source code to figure that out.

-CHB

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