Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote: > Xavier Morel a écrit : >> Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote: >> >>> Well, I would even add : don't use super ! >>> Just call the superclass method : >>> >>> MyClass.__init__(self) >>> >>> >>> >>> Simon Percivall a écrit : >>> >>>> Don't use self.__class__, use the name of the class. >>>> >> Bad idea if you're using new-style classes with a complex inheritance >> hierarchy and multiple inheritance. > > As a reference : > > http://fuhm.org/super-harmful/ > > I may say this is the only place I ever saw what "super" *really* is > for. The behavior is far too complex and misthought. All I can say is : > don't use it ! It solves *nothing* and creates too many bugs in the long > run.
My own encounter with the subject was Guido's "Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2" (http://www.python.org/2.2.3/descrintro.html#mro for the part on super itself), but I'll keep your link close by. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
