At 09:41 PM 3/21/2007 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Also make a big distinction between super calls of __init__ (which are > a Pythonic wart and don't exist in other languages practicing multiple > inheritance AFAIK)
Since I filed the bug, I should clarify that the primary reason I'm using super-init is to avoid multiple construction of a shared base (even if the base is just object, since I'd prefer not to rely on object's initializer being a no-op). C++ ensures that virtual bases are only constructed once, so there's no concern as to multiple construction. Is there a Python pattern better than super-init that provides the same guarantee? (Apologies if this appears in the wrong place; I just joined the list and I'm not seeing a way to participate in an existing thread.) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
