On Feb 13, 4:00 pm, James Mills <prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:
[snip] > When you subclass a base class (ship in your example) you need > to call it's parent (or super) methods. This includes the constructor > (__init__). > > The standard way of doing this in Python is: > > class FasterShip(Ship): > > def __init__(self, l=0,b=0,t=0,name='', speed=0): > super(FasterShip, self).__init__(l, b, t, name) Is super really necessary here James? I think the use of super in this manner is just as confusing to noobs as using map/filter are to list comprehensions/generators. However in exactly the opposite "syntactical" way since dumping super reduces syntax. Not trying to pick on you, just curious. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
