Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@vub.be> writes: > But did they start up cleaning the standard library yet? I'll confess > I'm only using 3.5 but when I go through the standard library I see a > lot of classes still using the old style of calling the parant method, > which makes it more difficult to use in a multiple inheritance scheme. > Those that don't inheret, don't call super themselves, which makes > them also more difficult to use in a multiple inheritance scheme.
Yes, there are large areas of the Python standard library that were written before Python 3 features, and some of those are thus less good than they could be. The solution is, as always: Someone needs to identify (in a bug report) what specifically should be improved; someone needs to come up with a specific implementation of that improvement (in a merge request, with unit tests); someone needs to maintain that code in the standard library on an ongoing basis. Feel free to take on any of that work; this is work that can be done by anyone in the Python community, we don't need to wait. -- \ “… whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to | `\ his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.” —Robert G. | _o__) Ingersoll, _The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child_, 1877 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
