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

[Alan Gauld]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> >Wouldn't it be nice if "super" were a reserved word 

OK, Having read the thread so far it looks like no-one 
has suggested the C++ trick mentioned by Bjarne Stroustrup 
in his 'Design and Evolution' book, so here goes:

class Foo:
    def __init__(self):
        self.a = 1
    def doit(self):
        print "a  = ", self.a

class Bar(Foo):
   super = Foo
   def __init__(self,n):
       self.super.__init__(self)
       self.b = n
   def doit(self):
       self.super.doit(self)
       print "b = ", self.b

f = Foo()
f.doit()

b = Bar(5)
b.doit()


This is somewhat like using super and has the real maintenance 
advantage that if the superclass of Bar is changed you don't 
need to edit all the methods.

Alan G