Eric Snow added the comment: > Because calling them *from* method implementations in concrete subclasses...
We do the same thing from Python all the time (though less so with the availability of super). E.G. dict.__init__(self, ...) and dict.__set item__(self, key, value). Now, if the C-API had some equivalent to super... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10977> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com