On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 20:33:37 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> One of the side-effects of this being a hack is that this doesn't work: >> >> class X(Y): >> def method(self, arg): >> f = super >> f().method(arg) > > Actually, that works just fine. The compiler sees that super is > accessed within the method and creates the closure necessary to make it > work. This does fail, however: > > f = super > class X(Y): > def method(self, arg): > f().method(arg)
Ah, that's the one! Thanks for the correction. I'll now go and write "I will always test my code snippets before posting" on the blackboard one hundred times. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
