Calling __init__ with multiple inheritance

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 02:02:35 EST 2005


Axel Straschil wrote:
> I came to the following:
> 
> For single inheritance, super is a nice tool if you will recfactoring
> the class later. 
> 
> For multiple inheritance, if you want to use super, you have to have
> very much knowledge of the classes you inheritance.

And for multiple inheritance, if you don't use super, you're likely to 
call the same method twice if you ever have a diamond inheritance problem.

STeVe



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