Greg Chapman wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: > > > When would you call super with only one argument? The only examples > > I can find of doing this are in the test suite for super. > > > > I think it's to allow something like this: > > class A(B, C): > __super = super(A) > def foo(self): > return self.__super.foo() > > This allows you to rename A and only have to change one super call to > reflect the new name. >
Except that doesn't work unless you use something like the autosuper metaclass trick from test_descr.py (since the class A does not yet exist where I put that super call). And autosuper has a comment that it "only works for dynamic classes" -- not sure that I understand what "dynamic" means there. In case you haven't guessed by now, I've only used two-arg super in my own code. --- Greg Chapman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
