[Python-3000] Fixing super anyone?

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Apr 24 00:38:21 CEST 2007


On 4/23/07, Adam Olsen <rhamph at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/23/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> > But I can't say I particularly like this idea, compared to "super.foo" or
> > even "super(self).foo".  In fact, the latter invocation doesn't even
> > require a keyword -- it just means the compiler needs to include a cell
> > variable for the current class whenever it thinks you might be using super().
>
> +1 on super(self).foo.  It's SomeLongClassName we want to get rid of, not self.
> As a bonus, super() and super(cls) have obvious semantics.

At least +0 from me too.

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