super() woes (n00b)

[Deadly Dirk]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:18:33 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:

> Deadly Dirk wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:48:45 -0400, J. Cliff Dyer wrote:
>> 
>>> super gives you an instantiated version of the super class, which
>>> means that you don't have to explicitly send self to any methods you
>>> call on it.
>>>
>>> So use `super().__init__()` instead.
>> 
>> Thanks. Interestingly enough, it works in Python 3, which is what the
>> book is about. It doesn't work in Python 2.6
> 
> as Thomas Jollans said days ago:
>  > but you should really install Python 3.1 (it's in ubuntu, as others
>  > have said!) because you will almost certainly hit into other snags.
> 
> or, as Gabriele Lanaro said in that same thread:
>  > else take a book that covers python 2.x syntax
> 
> Cut-and-pasting-ly yours,
> 
> ~Ethan~

As you can see, I followed the advice and installed the latest Python.



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