Re: super() and multiple inheritance failure

2009-09-25 Thread Michele Simionato
On Sep 26, 8:02 am, "Gabriel Genellina" wrote: > If you decide at every invocation which method to call, it's a dispatcher;   > you may use a dictionary to map each alternative to the function to be   > invoked. If it only depends on the type of the argument, there is a hidden   > gem in pkgutil (

Re: super() and multiple inheritance failure

2009-09-25 Thread Chris Rebert
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:15:54 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: > >>> Inside MyClass().method(n), I dispatch to either NClass.method() or >>> PClass.method() depending on the value of the argument n. The correct >>> class is called, but then the *o

Re: super() and multiple inheritance failure

2009-09-25 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:48:08 -0300, Steven D'Aprano escribió: I'm aiming for some sort of polymorphic inheritance: in a method, if the argument meets some condition, inherit from PClass, if it meets another condition inherit from NClass, and so on. Is there are standard name for this idea?

Re: super() and multiple inheritance failure

2009-09-25 Thread Ben Finney
Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:03:09 -0700, Michele Simionato wrote: > > I usually recommend avoiding multiple inheritance altogether. > > In my case, PClass and NClass are actually private classes, and it > seemed like a nice way to avoid having to fill MyClass with > slightly-

Re: super() and multiple inheritance failure

2009-09-25 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:03:09 -0700, Michele Simionato wrote: > On Sep 26, 4:36 am, Steven D'Aprano cybersource.com.au> wrote: >> I don't understand why I'm getting the following behaviour when using >> super() with multiple inheritance. > > super is working as intended. If you do not want cooper

Re: super() and multiple inheritance failure

2009-09-25 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:15:54 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: >> Inside MyClass().method(n), I dispatch to either NClass.method() or >> PClass.method() depending on the value of the argument n. The correct >> class is called, but then the *other* class method is called as well. >> E.g. this is what I ex

Re: super() and multiple inheritance failure

2009-09-25 Thread Daniel Stutzbach
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano < st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: > I don't understand why I'm getting the following behaviour when using > super() with multiple inheritance. The following is a minimal example > demonstrating the behaviour. > super() does not have th

Re: super() and multiple inheritance failure

2009-09-25 Thread Michele Simionato
On Sep 26, 4:36 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I don't understand why I'm getting the following behaviour when using > super() with multiple inheritance. super is working as intended. If you do not want cooperative methods, don't use super and call directly the superclass. I usually recommend avoid

Re: super() and multiple inheritance failure

2009-09-25 Thread Chris Rebert
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I don't understand why I'm getting the following behaviour when using > super() with multiple inheritance. The following is a minimal example > demonstrating the behaviour. > > I have a diamond class hierarchy as follows: > >  o >  | >  B >