These are certainly basic terms. It could help to a glossary setting out just what these terms mean.John Roth wrote:
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What is the purpose of the second argument to super()?
I've always found the docs to be fairly confusing. They didn't give me enough context to tell what was going on. I also find the terminology confusing: "type" seems to mean "new style class object", and "object" seems to mean "instance."
In some cases type and class are used synonomously. Clarification would help us all.
I agree that the docs could probably do with some improvement here, but this is mostly because (I suspect) the type-based material has been shoehorned in to the existing documentation structure. My own suspicion was that a more radical revision would yield a better manual, but it doesn't look as though anybody has had time to attempt it.
A radical revision here would certainly help.
Colin W. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
