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

[Greg Ewing]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> 
> self.__class__.__bases__[0] satisfies this request, I think.

Not when there is more than one level of inheritance
involved. The class you want to find the base class
of isn't the class of self, it's the class where the
currently executing method was defined, and there's
currently nothing in Python that keeps track of that.

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