Op 23-06-13 18:35, Steven D'Aprano schreef:
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 10:15:38 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:If you're worried about efficiency, you can also explicitly name the superclass in order to call the method directly, like: A.__init__(self, arg)Please don't. This is false economy. The time you save will be trivial, the overhead of inheritance is not going to be the bottleneck in your code, and by ignoring super, you only accomplish one thing: - if you use your class in multiple inheritance, it will be buggy.
Which is why I don't understand that the python standard library still contains that kind of code. At least it did in 3.2 and I saw nothing in the 3.3 release notes that would make me suspect this has changed. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
