Builtn super() function. How to use it with multiple inheritance? And why should I use it at all?

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:29:24 +0200, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
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>> As someone already said in this list, the main problem with super is
>> that it tends to refer to the superclass method while in fact it calls
>> the next MRO method.
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> Why do you think that is a problem? That's what it is supposed to do, 
> because that's what is needed to correctly implement multiple inheritance.
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>> "mro" would have been the proper name for "super".
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> That's your opinion. In any case, whether super() was called super() or 
> mro() or aardvark() makes no difference to the functionality or whether 
> it is useful.
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I have no problem with dogs nor cats, however I have problem with cats 
called dogs and dogs called cats as I'm dealing with industrial 
programming, not litterature nor poetry.

JM