What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?

[Ian Kelly]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Mark Janssen <dreamingforward at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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?
>
> ^.  You make a symbol for it.  ^__init__(foo, bar)

On the one hand, eww.

On the other hand, with the changes to super in Python 3 to make it
more magical, it might as well be syntax.