[Tutor] Modify inherited methods

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Wed Apr 28 13:04:30 CEST 2010


On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:53:06 pm Walter Wefft wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>  > And for guru-level mastery, replace to call to dict.__init__ with
>  > ...
>
> nothing at all, because dict.__init__ doesn't do anything.
[...]
> Behaviour is different depending on whether you call the superclass
> __init__ or not.
>
> ?

Fascinating... it seems that you are correct. Just goes to show, you can 
be programming in Python for well over a decade and still learn 
something new.

Believe it or not, I did test the behaviour before posting, but 
obviously my tests were faulty!


-- 
Steven D'Aprano


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