super() woes (n00b)

[Ethan Furman]

Deadly Dirk wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:48:45 -0400, J. Cliff Dyer wrote:
> 
>> super gives you an instantiated version of the super class, which means
>> that you don't have to explicitly send self to any methods you call on
>> it.
>>
>> So use `super().__init__()` instead.
> 
> Thanks. Interestingly enough, it works in Python 3, which is what the 
> book is about. It doesn't work in Python 2.6

as Thomas Jollans said days ago:
 > but you should really install Python 3.1 (it's in ubuntu, as others
 > have said!) because you will almost certainly hit into other snags.

or, as Gabriele Lanaro said in that same thread:
 > else take a book that covers python 2.x syntax

Cut-and-pasting-ly yours,

~Ethan~