> Unfortunately, if we should follow the recent advice about > always using "super()" in the __init__ method, it's hard > to do what you suggest (though it sounds like good advice) > without resorting to extreme ugliness:
'import this' also provides some good advice: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." It seems to me that python is not as simple/clean as it once was. It has grown warts, for the sake of backwards compatibility. :( Sw. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list