On 3/21/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every time I've considered using super, I've eventually > decided against it for reasons like this. I've always > found a better way that doesn't introduce so may > strange interactions between the classes involved.
I end up feeling the same way, for purely pragmatic reasons. However, cooperative multiple inheritance is a respected religion, and when practiced systematically can work well. Also make a big distinction between super calls of __init__ (which are a Pythonic wart and don't exist in other languages practicing multiple inheritance AFAIK) and super calls of regular methods (which are virtually problem-free as long as you agree on a base class that defines a method and derive from that class when you want to extend it). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
