Help with super()

[Christopher J. Bottaro]

Thank you everyone for the help, that cleared it up for me.

Andy Gross wrote:

> 
> Florian,
> 
> See: http://www.python.org/doc/newstyle.html
> 
> /arg
> 
> 
> On Dec 7, 2004, at 5:38 AM, Florian Lindner wrote:
> 
>> Steven Bethard schrieb:
>>> Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
>>>> Why don't this code work?
>>>>
>>>> import PRI
>>>>
>>>> class Poscdnld_PYIO(PRI.BasicBatch):
>>>>       def __init__(self, *argv):
>>>>       super(Poscdnld_PYIO, self).__init__(*argv)
>>>>
>>>> x = Poscdnld_PYIO()
>>>>
>>>> I get this exception:
>>>> File "poscdnld_pyio.py", line 52, in __init__
>>>>     super(Poscdnld_PYIO, self).__init__(*argv)
>>>> TypeError: super() argument 1 must be type, not classobj
>>>>
>>>> What am I doing wrong?  Thanks.
>>>>
>>> I don't know what PRI is, but I suspect that PRI.BasicBatch is a
>>> classic class, not a new-style class.  The super function only works
>>> for new-style classes:
>>
>> Never heard of new-stype and classiv-class... What are the differences?
>>
>> Thx,
>>
>> Florian
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