> If your superclass has a method with the same name (other than __init__ > here), that contains some logic that a subclass that overrides the method > needs, it's written wrong in python. In this case, use different method > names, or factor out the parent class methods functionality into (probably) > a decorator. Code reuse should be strived for, but that's not the only > purpose of inheritance. If you need to override a method in a subclass, and > still need to call the parents method in that subclass, you're almost > definately using inheritance wrong, with the special exception of __init__.
I think we agree on this, I can imagine that there are cases where it's desirable to have this ... but I can't come up with a good counter example so I assume this mean that we agree :) > In the case of __init__, you probably want to use Parent.__init__, and not > super, if only because of all the weird edge cases with super. Yes, it was those edge cases that I was worried about. -- The Green Tea Leaf thegreenteal...@gmail.com thegreentealeaf.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
