What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 12:04:35 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:

> 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.


What else would you call a function that does lookups on the current 
object's superclasses?



-- 
Steven