Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I mistaken in thinking that "superclass of foo" is equivalent to > "parent class of foo"? If so, I'd lay heavy odds that I'm not alone in > that thinking.
"That thinking" (confusing "parent" with "ancestor") makes sense only (if at all) in a single-inheritance world. Python's super() exists to support MULTIPLE inheritance. In general, "a superclass of foo" means "a class X such that foo is a sublass of X" and thus applies to all parents, all parents of parents, and so on ("issubclass" does NOT mean "is a DIRECT AND IMMEDIATE subclass", but "is a subclass"; check the Python builtin function of that name). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list