On Sep 16, 12:23 pm, Casey <casey.mcgi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that the many (if not all) classes in threading.py[1] all > inherit from object, yet non of the init methods call super(). I am > curious as to why this is the chosen implementation? If the benefit of > new-style classes is to support multiple inheritance, then isn't this > "broken" if the class __init__ method does not make a call to super? > > [1]http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/threading.py?view=markup > > Thanks, > - Casey
You can use multiple inheritance even without using super. Of course, you lose is the possibility to make cooperative methods, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. A lot of people just do not care about multiple inheritance and cooperative methods. Google for "python super" and you will find more info than you ever wanted to know. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
