Why does super take a class name as the argument?

[Shalabh Chaturvedi]

Chris Green wrote:
>>[1] http://www.python.org/2.2.3/descrintro.html
> 
> Thanks for the pointer ( to all ).  This was what I was looking for.

Here's another: 
http://www.cafepy.com/articles/python_attributes_and_methods/ch02.html

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Shalabh