[Python-Dev] New Super PEP (original) (raw)

Collin Winter collinw at gmail.com
Sun Apr 29 06:38:29 CEST 2007

On 4/28/07, Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy at gmail.com> wrote:

Comments welcome, of course. Bare with my first attempt at crafting a PEP.

PEP: XXX Title: Super As A Keyword Version: RevisionRevisionRevision Last-Modified: DateDateDate Author: Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy at gmail.com> Status: Draft Type: Standards Track Content-Type: text/x-rst Created: 30-Apr-2007 Python-Version: 2.6 [snip] Which means the backward compatible API, which involves instansiating the super type, will either not be possible, because it will actually do a super lookup on the call attribute, or there will be no way to perform a super lookup on the call attribute. Both seem unacceptable, so any suggestions are welcome.

You're offering absolutely zero backwards compatibility and you're targeting 2.6? Um, no; absolutely not. Even if you intend this for 3.0, you'll still need to define either a backwards compatibility solution or a migration strategy (e.g., a 2to3 fixer). Without a clear-cut way of addressing existing code, this idea is toast.

Collin Winter

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