On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:29:50 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: >> Oh, and while the gurus are at it, what would be the advantage (if any) >> of changing, say >> Primate.__init__(self) >> to >> super(Human, self).__init__() > > None, if you use single inheritance everywhere.
But there's no disadvantage to using super with single inheritance (and new-style classes). > super is very tricky; see: > http://fuhm.net/super-harmful/ > and > http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=236275 As I understand it, the trickiness only comes about when you have diamond diagrams in your MRO. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
