[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset 3b5e9241142d6b7c22059115c0e68a8912753818 by Raymond Hettinger (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.7': bpo-38255: super() can search attributes as well as methods (GH-16368) (GH-16392)

[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset 7444a5a402bbac4268b95958a9578a9e3dae33e0 by Raymond Hettinger (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.8': bpo-38255: super() can search attributes as well as methods (GH-16368) (GH-16391)

[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +15973 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/16391 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset 15ccc4fac09b866d61b069c6c136aabfe4bac09c by Raymond Hettinger in branch 'master': bpo-38255: super() can search attributes as well as methods (GH-16368) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/15ccc4fac09b866d61b069c6c136aabfe4bac09c

[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +15974 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/16392 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

Géry added the comment: Alright, I am fine with @rhettinger's alternative PR too. I am closing this. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

Carol Willing added the comment: @maggyero Thanks for the PR and working to improve the docs. For this particular issue, I prefer PR 16368 for its brevity and common use case. I'm recommending that it be merged. -- nosy: +willingc ___ Python

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Josh Rosenberg added the comment: I prefer rhettinger's PR to your proposed PR; while super() may be useful for things other than methods, the 99% use case is methods, and deemphasizing that is a bad idea. rhettinger's PR adds a note about other use cases without interfering with super()'s

[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

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[issue38255] Replace "method" with "attribute" in the description of super()

New submission from Géry : The description of `super()` uses the word "method" instead of the more general word "attribute". > super([type[, object-or-type]]) > Return a proxy object that delegates method calls to a parent or sibling > class of *type*. This is useful for accessing inherited