En Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:26:20 -0200, Michele Simionato
<michele.simion...@gmail.com> escribió:
On Feb 10, 4:29 am, "Gabriel Genellina"
> Honestly, I don't understand how this thing got so much out of
> control. If anyone starts an intelligent question or remark about
> super, this essay is thrown in no matter what. Anyone can explain why?
Because for a very loooooong time (seven years, 2001-2008) super was
almost undocumented. The Library Reference -before release 2.6- only
had a
short paragraph, the online documentation referred (and still does) to
the
original essay by Guido introducing descriptors, which is inaccurate
and
outdated, and then the "... harmful" article was the only source of
information available.
All right. This is way I made the effort of writing a comprehensive
collection of all the tricky points about super
I knew:
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=236275
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=236278
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=237121
You really should push them to be included in python.org, even in their
unfinished form. (At least a link in the wiki pages). Their visibility is
almost null now.
They're very clearly written - I wish you had published them years ago!
Also see this thread on python-dev about the issue of super
documentation: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/673833
Apart from a few remarks in the first posts, there is little criticism of
your articles themselves. Looks like adding a section about Python 3 is
the only important pending issue - again, you really should publish the
series in a more prominent place.
--
Gabriel Genellina
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
