[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] PEP 367: New Super

[Tim Delaney]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> The bound method object isn't stored in the class -- it's created by
> the "C.method" or "inst.method" getattr operation. I don't see how
> this would introduce a cycle.
>
>> If we store the class, we can store it as a weakref - the when the
>> super object is created, a strong reference to the class exists.

We need to create some relationship between the unbound method and the 
class. So the class has a reference to the unbound method, and the unbound 
method has a reference to the class, thus creating a cycle. Bound methods 
don't come into it - it's the unbound method that's the problem.

> Since class and type are synonym (as you say) having both im_class and
> im_type would be a bad idea.

I'm struggling to think of another, not too complicated name that conveys 
the same information.

Tim Delaney