[Python-3000] Fixing super anyone? (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Apr 19 00:54:09 CEST 2007
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On 4/18/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote: > Is anyone available to write up a PEP on how to turn super into a > keyword? Inside regular and class methods, super.foo(args) should be > equivalent to super(ThisClass, self).foo(args).
As I'm still not convinced that super() is very useful in the first place, I'm not sure I want it made into a keyword at all.
Well, I and others do find it useful (indispensible, in fact) for writing classes that support cooperative multiple inheritance. That's not a sport for casual users, but if you need it, super is the only game in town.
I'd rather see syntactic support for making a normal inherited method call without danger of using the wrong class, e.g. if you change a base class but forget to update inherited calls to match.
You will get that too with the proposal.
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