Updated blog post on how to use super()

Duncan Booth duncan.booth at invalid.invalid
Thu Jun 2 16:58:27 EDT 2011


Billy Mays <noway at nohow.com> wrote:

> I read this when it was on HN the other day, but I still don't see what 
> is special about super().  It seems (from your post) to just be a stand 
> in for the super class name?  Is there something special I missed?
> 
Consider any diamond hierarchy:

class Base(object): pass
class A(Base): pass
class B(Base): pass
class C(A, B): pass

If you have an instance of C, then in a method in A super() could refer to 
a method in B which is not a base class of A.

If you have an instance of A then the sampe super() reference in one of A's 
methods refers to the method in Base.

-- 
Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com



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