On 8/1/07, Evan Klitzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I was reading this article: http://fuhm.net/super-harmful/ and didn't > understand the comment about calling super(Foo, self).__init__() when > Foo inherits only from object. Can someone on the list elaborate more > on why one should do this?
I hate to reply to my own thread, but I read this article: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.3/mro/ and I think I understand the rationale now. If you have: class Foo(object): # stuff here class Bar(object): # stuff here class Baz(Foo, Bar): # stuff here Then if Baz calls super(Baz, self).__init__() in its __init__, and Foo makes no call super(Foo, self).__init__(), then the constructor for Bar will never be called. -- Evan Klitzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
