Threading.py Class Syntax and Super

[Michele Simionato]

On Sep 16, 12:23 pm, Casey <casey.mcgi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that the many (if not all) classes in threading.py[1] all
> inherit from object, yet non of the init methods call super(). I am
> curious as to why this is the chosen implementation? If the benefit of
> new-style classes is to support multiple inheritance, then isn't this
> "broken" if the class __init__ method does not make a call to super?
>
> [1]http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/threading.py?view=markup
>
> Thanks,
> - Casey

You can use multiple inheritance even without using super. Of course,
you lose
is the possibility to make cooperative methods, but this is not
necessarily a
bad thing. A lot of people just do not care about multiple inheritance
and
cooperative methods. Google for "python super" and you will find more
info
than you ever wanted to know.