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

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Fri Apr 15 15:30:11 CEST 2011

On 15/04/2011 02:02, Greg Ewing wrote:

Michael Foord wrote:

What I was suggesting is that a method not calling super shouldn't stop a sibling method being called, but could still prevent the parent method being called. There isn't necessarily a clear distinction between parents and siblings. class A: ... class B(A): ... class C(A, B): ... In C, is A a parent of B or a sibling of B? For a super call in C, B is a sibling to A. For a super call in B, A is a parent.

With the semantics I was suggesting if C calls super, but A doesn't then B would still get called.

All the best,

Michael

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