Q? Calling nearest inherited method

[Laurent POINTAL]

On Thu, 18 May 2000 11:02:38 GMT, Fred Gansevles
<gansevle at cs.utwente.nl> wrote:


>: An intermediate approach could be:
>: 
>: def super(self):
>:     return self.__class__.__bases__[0]
>: 
>: class D(C):
>:     def hello(self):
>:         super(self).dothis(self)
>: 

Except that self.__class__ must already return the true class of the
object... so its only valid if you are at the bottom of the class
hierarchy. Sorry, not even the solution... I still prefer use the one
which does the work (just if I change my class hierarchy tree I must
think to change my code relatively to parents code --like
parent.__init__ calls--, but it may not occur before times).

Thanks for all your ideas. Maybe we will see an inherited keyword
later (Guido?), but I dont think it be a priority to extend the
langage, as calling parent class method explicitly is not so bad and
is well readable (to know where we are continuing in the execution
path).

A+

Laurent.

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