Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The use case for super() is where you have a chain of > methods that are sufficiently compatible that you don't > need to know or care which one you're calling next. > That's not usually the case with __init__ methods.
It worked fine for me when I forced my clients (for a specific hierarchy) to always pass keyword arguments to __init__. This allowed me to use super() succesfully. Of course, Python non-existing support for mandatory keyword arguments makes things a little harder than they could be. I'll also point people to this page, which contains a very accurate description of the issues with super: http://fuhm.net/super-harmful/ Giovanni Bajo _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com