[Python-Dev] python and super (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Apr 15 03:39:09 CEST 2011

Raymond Hettinger wrote:

If an external non-cooperative class needs to be used, then it should be wrapped in a class that makes an explicit init call to the external class and then calls super().init() to continue the forwarding.

I don't think it's as simple as that. Isn't that super() call going to call the init() method that you just explicitly called again?

Seems like you would at least need to use super(BaseClass)... to skip the one you just called. But it's not immediately obvious to me that this won't ever skip other classes that you do want to call.

-- Greg

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