multiple inheritance super()

[rafi]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> km wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In the following code why am i not able to access class A's object 
>> attribute - 'a' ? I wishto extent  class D with all the attributes of 
>> its base classes. how do i do that ?
[snip]
> Each class should do a similar super() call, with the appropriate name 
> substitutions.
[snip]
> -Peter

A related question is about the order of the __init__ calls. Considering 
the following sample:

#--8<---
class A (object):
     def __init__ (self):
         super (A, self) .__init__ ()
         print 'i am an A'
     def foo (self):
         print 'A.foo'

class B (object):
     def __init__ (self):
         super (B, self) .__init__ ()
         print 'i am a B'
     def foo (self):
         print 'B.foo'

class C (A, B):
     def __init__ (self):
         super (C, self) .__init__ ()
         print 'i am a C'

c = C ()
c.foo ()
#--8<---

aerts $ python2.4 inheritance.py
i am a B
i am an A
i am a C
A.foo

I do understand the lookup for foo: foo is provided by both classes A 
and B and I do not state which one I want to use, so it takes the first 
one in the list of inherited classes (order of the declaration). However
I cannot find an explanation (I may have googled the wrong keywords) for 
the order of the __init__ calls from C. I was expecting (following the 
same order as the method lookup):

i am an A
i am a B
i am a C
A.foo

Thanks

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rafi

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