super-problem

[Franz Glasner]

super() works only for new style classes.

Derive your class B from object and super() works:

  class B(object):
     ...

Franz.


On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Max Khesin wrote:

> I was playing with super() and here is my session - the suggested usage of
> super appears to produce an error. What am I missing? thanks -
> max.
>
>
> PythonWin 2.2.2 (#37, Oct 14 2002, 17:02:34) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32.
> >>> print super.__doc__
> super(type) -> unbound super object
> super(type, obj) -> bound super object; requires isinstance(obj, type)
> super(type, type2) -> bound super object; requires issubclass(type2, type)
> Typical use to call a cooperative superclass method:
> class C(B):
>     def meth(self, arg):
>         super(C, self).meth(arg)
> >>> class B:
> ...  def meth(self, arg):
> ...   print ('B::meth, arg = %s'%arg)
> ...
> >>> class C(B):
> ...  def meth(self, arg):
> ...   super(C, self).meth(arg)
> ...
> >>> c = C()
> >>> c.meth('Ho')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
>   File "<interactive input>", line 3, in meth
> TypeError: super() argument 1 must be type, not class
>
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