Steven D'Aprano wrote:
[snip]
super() is just as explicit as len(), or str.upper(). It says,
explicitly, that it will call the method belonging to one or more
superclass of the given class.
Come on Steven, you're better than this :) .
Everybody can accurately guess what len and upper are doing without
looking at the documentation. No one can guess for super without closely
looking at the documention, or even at some good articles on the net
which try to clear things up about super. And note there is no such
article about len or upper.
As someone already said in this list, the main problem with super is
that it tends to refer to the superclass method while in fact it calls
the next MRO method.
"mro" would have been the proper name for "super".
JM
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