super - is (should) it (be) a reserved word?

[Rainer Deyke]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:8rmu1e12bc1 at news1.newsguy.com...
> import new
>
> class WithSuper:
>     def __init__(self, *args, **keywords):
>         self.super=new.instance(self.__class__.__bases__[0],
self.__dict__)
>         self.super.__init__(*args, **keywords)
>
> class A:
>     def __init__(self):
>         self.a=23
>     def dotry(self):
>         print self.a
>
> class B(A, WithSuper):
>     def __init__(self):
>         WithSuper.__init__(self)
>         self.b=45
>     def dotry(self):
>         print self.b
>         self.super.dotry()

Problem with this approach:

class C(B):
  def __init__(self):
    B.__init__(self)

C().dotry() # Infinite recursion!  Yeah!


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