[Tutor] Why super does not work !

[Alan G]

Steven D'Aprano <steve <at> pearwood.info> writes:

> fact that multiple inheritance itself is often the wrong thing to use, 
> and even when it is right, it is often tricky to get it right. To put it 
> another way: don't use multiple inheritance unless you have to, there 
> are better ways, such as by composition.

Or use a language where MI is the normal and idiomatic way 
to do things because the language assumes it and so it just 
works. There are very few such languages but Lisp is one :-)

Sadly Python isn't, and when using MI I always avoid super()
Which is a huge shame since MI is where super() should 
be most useful... But in my experience MI in Python is 
definitely a place where explicit is better than implicit.

Alan G.