On 25 Jul., 18:11, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > Am 25.07.2011 17:28, schrieb Archard Lias: > > > It would be great if you could elaborate a little more on that. Am I > > not supposed to access the parent here? > > You must spell out the parent explicitly, otherwise subclasses call > super() with themselves rather than the correct parent class. > self.__class__ is too dynamic here. Have a look at this example: > > class A(object): > def method(self): > pass > > class B(A): > def method(self): > super(self.__class__, self).method() > > class C(B): > pass > > In this example, C().method() results in "super(C, self).method()" > because self.__class__ is C. However that is wrong because you have to > call super() with the direct parent. > > Christian
Oh! Get it, thanks a lot :P -- Archard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
