Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin...@googlemail.com> writes: > The meth methods in child1 and child2 are the same, except that in > the last super call, one is referring to parent1, the other is > referring to parent2.
It's important to learn that, in a language with multiple inheritance, “superclass of this instance” is *not* the same concept as “parent of this class”. The class you're coding may end up at any arbitrary point in a resolution chain, despite what the class inherits from. It's also important to be aware of the hairiness of Python's ‘super’ <URL:http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=236275>. -- \ “No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep | `\ up.” —Jane Wagner, via Lily Tomlin | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
