On 27 Mai, 23:49, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > I think Sturla is referring to the "compile time" bit. CPython cannot know > that the builtin super() will be called at runtime, even if it sees a > "super()" function call.
Yes. And opposite: CPython cannot know that builtin super() is not called, even if it does not see the name 'super'. I can easily make foo() alias super(). In both cases, the cure is a keyword -- or make sure that __class__ is always defined. If super is to be I keyword, we could argue that self and cls should be keywords as well, and methods should always be bound. That speaks in favour of a super() function. But then it should always be evaluated at run- time, without any magic from the parser. Magic functions belong in Perl, not Python. Sturla -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
