Thank you everyone for the help, that cleared it up for me. Andy Gross wrote:
> > Florian, > > See: http://www.python.org/doc/newstyle.html > > /arg > > > On Dec 7, 2004, at 5:38 AM, Florian Lindner wrote: > >> Steven Bethard schrieb: >>> Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: >>>> Why don't this code work? >>>> >>>> import PRI >>>> >>>> class Poscdnld_PYIO(PRI.BasicBatch): >>>> def __init__(self, *argv): >>>> super(Poscdnld_PYIO, self).__init__(*argv) >>>> >>>> x = Poscdnld_PYIO() >>>> >>>> I get this exception: >>>> File "poscdnld_pyio.py", line 52, in __init__ >>>> super(Poscdnld_PYIO, self).__init__(*argv) >>>> TypeError: super() argument 1 must be type, not classobj >>>> >>>> What am I doing wrong? Thanks. >>>> >>> I don't know what PRI is, but I suspect that PRI.BasicBatch is a >>> classic class, not a new-style class. The super function only works >>> for new-style classes: >> >> Never heard of new-stype and classiv-class... What are the differences? >> >> Thx, >> >> Florian >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
