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

Carl Meyer carl at oddbird.net
Fri Apr 15 17🔞11 CEST 2011

On 04/15/2011 08:53 AM, Michael Foord wrote:

If we treat django's failure to use super as a bug, you want the Python language to work-around that bug so that: What you say (that this particular circumstance could be treated as a bug in django) is true,

Just as a side note: if there is a bug demonstrated here, it is in unittest2, not Django. Django's TestCase subclasses don't even override init or setUp, so there is no opportunity for them to call or fail to call super() in either case.

If you re-read Ricardo's original presentation of the case, he correctly noted that it is unittest2's TestCase which does not call super() and thus prevents cooperative multiple inheritance. I'm not sure who in this thread first mis-read his post and called it a possible bug in Django, but it was a mis-reading which now appears to be self-propagating ;-)

Carl

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