average wrote:
> It seems that the frustration with super revolves around how Python
> currently conflates (as well as many users) two very different types
> of inheritance, both "is-a" and "has-a" (or compositional)
> inheritance. Unfortunately, Python assists this confusion because the
> language doesn't provide a distinct enough way to differentiate
> between them.
has-a should be modelling with attributes, not inheritance. The latter
relationship should always mean is-a (even for mixins).
Cheers,
Nick.
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