Thomas Rachel wrote: > Am 09.09.2011 07:47 schrieb Oliver: >> class Container(object): >> """Container to store a number of non-overlapping rectangles.""" >> def __init__(self, xsize=1200, ysize=800): >> super(Container, self).__init__(xsize, ysize) > > And this is the nonsense: Container derives from object and tries to > call its superclass's constructor with 2 parameters - which won't work.
Not nonsense. Merely a backward-incompatible change: [steve@sylar ~]$ python2.2 Python 2.2.3 (#1, Aug 12 2010, 01:08:27) [GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> object("two", "parameters") <object object at 0x92a43e8> In Python 2.2, the default object constructor accepts, and ignores, any parameters. In Python 2.3 on up, that becomes an error. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list