On 4/19/06, Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [responding to some confusing text from me about super in a static method]
> That's not how it works (and that's good; refusing the temptation to guess, > and what not :) super() cannot make any assumptions about the next class in > the MRO, and since you don't *have* a class in a staticmethod, it has no way > to find out. staticmethods just can't sensibly call 'their baseclass method' > (unless they're really just "explicit classmethods", like __new__, but those > best be real classmethods (even __new__ :)) Of course. I forgot that -- super is useless with a static method. Whether static methods are useless is a matter of taste (I happen to concur :-). -- --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
