On 4/19/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the contrary, it's precisely when you *don't* know > what classes are going be mixed in with you that super() > is likely to go haywire. Your super() call ends up > calling a method that you know nothing about, and > the method being called isn't expecting to be called > in that context either. Whether that will do the > "right" thing, or whether there even is a right thing > to be done, is anybody's guess.
Um, you don't seem to be familiar with the theory of cooperative method calls I believe I cited the book from which I got this in some original writings regarding new-style classes (no time to look it up right now). It may not work too well in Python due to lack of enforcement, but in theory it is sound. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
