[Python-Dev] python and super

[Carl Meyer]

On 04/15/2011 08:53 AM, Michael Foord wrote:
>> If we treat django's failure to use super as a bug, you want the
>> Python language to work-around that bug so that:
> 
> What you say (that this particular circumstance could be treated as a
> bug in django) is true, 

Just as a side note: if there is a bug demonstrated here, it is in
unittest2, not Django. Django's TestCase subclasses don't even override
__init__ or setUp, so there is no opportunity for them to call or fail
to call super() in either case.

If you re-read Ricardo's original presentation of the case, he correctly
noted that it is unittest2's TestCase which does not call super() and
thus prevents cooperative multiple inheritance. I'm not sure who in this
thread first mis-read his post and called it a possible bug in Django,
but it was a mis-reading which now appears to be self-propagating ;-)

Carl