[Python-Dev] New Super PEP

[Giovanni Bajo]

On 02/05/2007 12.00, Christian Tanzer wrote:

>>> Nearly always wrong? You must be kidding. There are tons of reasons to
>>> call your super method with modified arguments. E.g. clipping,
>>> transforming, ...

>> Really?
>> http://fuhm.net/super-harmful/
> 
> Hmmm.
> 
> I've just counted more than 1600 usages of `super` in my
> sandbox. And all my tests pass.

And you don't follow any of the guidelines reported in that article? And you 
never met any of those problems? I find it hard to believe.

The fact that your code *works* is of little importance, since the article is 
more about maintenance of existing code using super (and the suggestions he 
proposes are specifically for making code using super less fragile to 
refactorings).
-- 
Giovanni Bajo