__init__ keyword param for sub-class?

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Thu Dec 23 16:20:38 EST 1999


Grant Edwards writes:
 > I guess it depends on how often multiple inheritence is used. I
 > come from a single-inheritence background (Smalltalk and
 > Modula-3), and haven't looked at enough Python code to have a

  Probably not too often; it's just harder to maintain, especially if
your classes are large or complex.  Name clashes are too easy to
introduce.

 > it would be a good idea unless it is part of a major change
 > that's going to break programs anyway.

  Python 2.0!


  -Fred

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