Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The definition of superclass is not the issue, the issue is >> "superclass *of which class*"? You expect super(A, self) to iterate >> only over superclasses of A, even when self is an instance of a >> subtype of A. > > Yes. Those are the specific parameters to the function call, so that > *is* what I expect.
The specific parameters are a type and an instance. Those same parameters can and do allow for an implementation that accesses supertypes of type(self). That is in fact more logical; otherwise one could simply iterate over A.__bases__ and we wouldn't need an elaborate 'super' construct. Not iterating only over A's superclasses is the entire *point* of super. The only deficiency of super I see in this thread is incomplete documentation. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
