Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > Oops, I just realized why such a claim might be made: the > documentation probably wants to be able to say that any method can use > super(). So that's why it claims that it isn't a method unless it's > defined inside a class body.
You can use super anywhere, including outside of classes. The only thing you can't do is use the Python 3 "super hack" which automatically fills in the arguments to super if you don't supply them. That is compiler magic which truly does require the function to be defined inside a class body. But you can use super outside of classes: py> class A(list): ... pass ... py> x = super(A) # Unbound super object! py> x.__get__(A).append <method 'append' of 'list' objects> py> a = A() py> x.__get__(a).append <built-in method append of A object at 0xb7b8beb4> -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
