[Python-Dev] Classes and Metaclasses in Smalltalk (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@digicool.com
Wed, 02 May 2001 09:30:20 -0500

This doesn't work in Python since Python has multiple inheritence, e.g. super in

class A(B,C): def foo(self): super.foo() is ambiguous.

I'm not sure what you mean. The search is totally well-defined: first search B for a foo method, then search C.

I'd rather suggest adding a function for finding the basemethod of a method. This is probably the most common task in this context.

I've never heard of the concept of basemethod, but if I may venture a guess, it would be the same definition as I give above.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)