How do I say "two classes up in the inheritance chain" in python?

[Ben Finney]

Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson at googlemail.com> writes:

> The meth methods in child1 and child2 are the same, except that in
> the last super call, one is referring to parent1, the other is
> referring to parent2.

It's important to learn that, in a language with multiple inheritance,
“superclass of this instance” is *not* the same concept as “parent
of this class”. The class you're coding may end up at any arbitrary
point in a resolution chain, despite what the class inherits from.

It's also important to be aware of the hairiness of Python's ‘super’
<URL:http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=236275>.

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Ben Finney