On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 08:58:23 -0700, Mark Janssen wrote: >>> Mostly I'm saying that super() is badly named. >> >> What else would you call a function that does lookups on the current >> object's superclasses? > > ^. You make a symbol for it. ^__init__(foo, bar)
If you want Perl, you can find it here: http://www.perl.org/ Or even more scary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_syntax_and_symbols ^ won't do the job, because it's already used for bitwise-xor. I suppose that *technically* it could be used as either a binary or unary operator, like +, -, *, **, but I don't think it could be used as both an operator and an identifier. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list