super - is (should) it (be) a reserved word?

[Aleksei Guzev]

I'm afraid "super" should evaluate to a sequence of class object, because of
multiple inheritance.

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"Grant Edwards" <ge at nowhere.none> wrote in message
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    [snip]
> Personally, I would like some way to refer to _a_ superclass.
> If there's more than one, it's an error or undefined or
> arbitrarily picks one. Almost all of the code I see/write uses

self.__class__.__bases__[0] satisfies this request, I think.

Would the saving of about three characters to call it, say,
self.__class__.__super__ be worth introducing a 'shortcut'...?


Alex



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