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

Michele Simionato michele.simionato at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 05🔞01 CEST 2008

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:30 AM, Alex Martelli <aleaxit at gmail.com> wrote:

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!)

Yep. Notice (I am sure you understood the point correctly, but just to clarify) that I am not interested in random occurrences of super, but in code/frameworks expressly designed to leverage on cooperation and doing it in a compelling way. IOW, I want to see cases where using cooperation is really better than relying on other techniques. Guido gives an example in http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2.3/descrintro/#cooperation with a .save method, so in theory there are good use cases, but I wonder in practice how common they are and if they are frequent enough to justify the added complication.

M.S.

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