[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

[Raymond Hettinger]

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New changeset 3b5e9241142d6b7c22059115c0e68a8912753818 by Raymond Hettinger 
(Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.7':
bpo-38255: super() can search attributes as well as methods (GH-16368) 
(GH-16392)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3b5e9241142d6b7c22059115c0e68a8912753818


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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger  added the comment:


New changeset 7444a5a402bbac4268b95958a9578a9e3dae33e0 by Raymond Hettinger 
(Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.8':
bpo-38255: super() can search attributes as well as methods (GH-16368) 
(GH-16391)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7444a5a402bbac4268b95958a9578a9e3dae33e0


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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

[miss-islington]

Change by miss-islington :


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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger  added the comment:


New changeset 15ccc4fac09b866d61b069c6c136aabfe4bac09c by Raymond Hettinger in 
branch 'master':
bpo-38255: super() can search attributes as well as methods (GH-16368)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/15ccc4fac09b866d61b069c6c136aabfe4bac09c


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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

[miss-islington]

Change by miss-islington :


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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

[Géry]

Géry  added the comment:

Alright, I am fine with @rhettinger's alternative PR too. I am closing this.

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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

[Carol Willing]

Carol Willing  added the comment:

@maggyero Thanks for the PR and working to improve the docs.

For this particular issue, I prefer PR 16368 for its brevity and common use 
case. I'm recommending that it be merged.

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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

[Emmanuel Arias]

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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

[Josh Rosenberg]

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I prefer rhettinger's PR to your proposed PR; while super() may be useful for 
things other than methods, the 99% use case is methods, and deemphasizing that 
is a bad idea. rhettinger's PR adds a note about other use cases without 
interfering with super()'s primary use case.

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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

[Raymond Hettinger]

Change by Raymond Hettinger :


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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

[Raymond Hettinger]

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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

[Géry]

New submission from Géry :

The description of `super()` uses the word "method" instead of the more general 
word "attribute".

> super([type[, object-or-type]])
> Return a proxy object that delegates method calls to a parent or sibling 
> class of *type*.  This is useful for accessing inherited methods that have 
> been overridden in a class.

`super()` is not restricted to method access but can also do data attribute 
access:

```
>>> class A:
... x = True
... 
>>> class B(A):
... x = False
... 
>>> B().x
False
>>> super(B, B()).x
True
```

I have just opened a PR to address this issue.

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title: Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()
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