[Python-3000] auto-super()

[Michael Urman]

On 4/18/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Hardly the same mechanism; __private is done by low-level name
> mangling in the early stages of the compiler. super() would need a
> class object to be reliable; the class *name* (which is all that's
> available at compile time) might resolve to something else at runtime.

That's all the current super() gets, right? super(Base, self).meth()
compiles with a LOAD_GLOBAL (Base)... Any mechanisms I can think of to
solidify that into the actual class reference either rely on
__mangled_attrs being assigned at or after class construction, or
potentially break in inherited classes.

Michael
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