On Jun 30, 9:15 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar> wrote: > En Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:34:02 -0300, Mitchell L Model > <mlmli...@comcast.net> escribi : > > > Allow me to add to my previous question that certainly the superclass > > methods can be called explicitly without resorting to super(), e.g.: > > > class C(A, B): > > def __init__(self): > > A.__init__(self) > > B.__init__(self) > > > My question is really whether there is any way of getting around the > > explicit class names by using super() and if not, shouldn't the > > documentation > > of super point out that if more than one class on the mro defines a > > method > > only the first will get called? > > super returns [a proxy to] the *next* class in the MRO chain; it may or > may not be a superclass of C (it may be a sibling class instead).
It could be even a niece class. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
