[Python-Dev] Things to Know About Super (original) (raw)

Alex Martelli aleaxit at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 03:30:17 CEST 2008

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Michele Simionato <michele.simionato at gmail.com> wrote: ...

It is just a matter of how rare the use cases really are. Cooperative methods has been introduced 6+ years ago. In all this time surely they must have been used. How many compelling uses of cooperation we can find in real life code? For instance in the standard library or in some well known framework? This is a serious question I have been wanting to ask for years. I am sure people here can find some example, so just give me a pointer and we will see.

http://www.koders.com/default.aspx?s=super&btn=&la=Python&li=* finds over 5,000 hits, but it would take substantial work to sift through them (in particular because not all refer to the built-in super, as you'll see even in the first page!) -- and a random hit I found by going to p.7 is really bad...:

"""Mixin to enable reification."""
def __init__(self):
    super(ReificationStore, self).__init__()

[there's nothing else in this init!].

Alex

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