On Mar 3, 11:49 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MooMaster schrieb: > > > I'm trying to use inheritance to create a simple binary tree, but it's > > not going so well... here's what I pull from the documentation for > > super() > > "super( type[, object-or-type]) > > > Return the superclass of type. If the second argument is omitted the > > super object returned is unbound. If the second argument is an object, > > isinstance(obj, type) must be true. If the second argument is a type, > > issubclass(type2, type) must be true. super() only works for new-style > > classes. > > The last sentence contains the important bit. You need to use > new-style-classes, which means they have to have the ancestor "object" > somewhere in their inheritance-graph. > > Like this: > > class Foo(object): pass > > Certainly one of the somewhat uglier corners of Python... > > Diez
Thanks guys, I hadn't even heard of the distinction between "old" and "new" style classes...is this in the tutorial somewhere? I didn't see it in Classes... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
