As Tom said, using super(type(self), self) will fail when your class gets subclassed. Otherwise we wouldn't have needed that kind of syntax in the first place.
You may be interested in my self.super recipe: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/286195 and the considerably faster version available at: http://members.optusnet.com.au/tcdelaney/python.html#autosuper Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
