Circular Class Logic

[greg]

Paul McGuire wrote:
> I always assumed that super, being added to
> the language later, represented some form of improvement, but this may
> not be 100% correct.

It's not -- super is not a replacement for explicit
inherited method calls. It does something different,
and has different use cases.

It's usually not appropriate for __init__ calls,
because an __init__ method generally doesn't have
the same signature as that of its base class(es).
You're better off calling the base __init__
directly, then you know exactly which method
you're calling and what signature it has.

--
Greg