super() woes (n00b)

[Ethan Furman]

Deadly Dirk wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:18:33 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
> 
>> 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~
> 
> As you can see, I followed the advice and installed the latest Python.


So you did.  My apologies.

~Ethan~