question on dict subclassing and overriding __setitems__

[George Sakkis]

Eric S. Johansson wrote:

> Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> > Or better even
> >
> >            super(subclass, self).__setitem__(key.upper(), value)
>
> hmm.  http://fuhm.net/super-harmful/

Interesting link, didn't know about it. I've always found super() ugly
and doubted that it was in practice better suited for multiple
inheritance than explicit method call, but I kept using it nonetheless
since it was "blessed" for new style classes. Unless of course the code
broke for one of the reasons mentioned in the article, in which case I
reverted back to the "old way". Good to know that I can safely get rid
of practically all super() calls. Any python-dev-er's take on super()'s
utility and future in Py3K ?

George