Billy Mays <no...@nohow.com> wrote: > I read this when it was on HN the other day, but I still don't see what > is special about super(). It seems (from your post) to just be a stand > in for the super class name? Is there something special I missed? > Consider any diamond hierarchy:
class Base(object): pass class A(Base): pass class B(Base): pass class C(A, B): pass If you have an instance of C, then in a method in A super() could refer to a method in B which is not a base class of A. If you have an instance of A then the sampe super() reference in one of A's methods refers to the method in Base. -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
