Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally, I'd call the lack of the super calls in threading.Thread and > Base bugs.
It can't be a bug since it wasn't a bug before super was introduced and you don't wan't to break working Python-2.x-code. > But __init__() is definitely a tricky case since the > number of arguments tends to change in the __init__() methods of classes... ACK. And every __init__ will have to accept *any* arguments you give to it and call super with *all* the arguments it got. This is tricky and easily to get wrong. Super is a good tool to use, when dealing with diamond shape inheritance. In any other case I would use the direct calls to the base classes. In fact, i've yet to find a non-textbook-case where I really need diamond shape inheritance. OTOH I don't mean to say that noone else needs it either. cu, --Jan Niklas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
