What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?

[Ian Kelly]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 11:18:41 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>> Incidentally, although super() is useful, it's not perfect, and this is
>> one of my grievances with it: that a user can, based upon the name, draw
>> an inaccurate assumption about what it does without reading or fully
>> understanding the documentation on it, which might then result in
>> misusing it.
>
> Wait a second... are you saying that the Python developers created an
> advanced language feature relating to multiple inheritance, one of the
> most complex OOP concepts around, so difficult that most other languages
> simply prohibit it completely, and it wasn't instantly and correctly
> intuited by every single programmer based only on the name? Oh my stars,
> somebody call Ranting Rick, he needs to write a PyWart post to expose
> this scandal!!!

Mostly I'm saying that super() is badly named.