[Python-Dev] New Super PEP (original) (raw)

Collin Winter collinw at gmail.com
Sun Apr 29 20:49:33 CEST 2007

On 4/29/07, Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy at gmail.com> wrote:

The PEP defines the proposal to enhance the super builtin to work implicitly upon the class within which it is used and upon the instance the current function was called on. The premise of the new super usage suggested is as follows:

super.foo(1, 2) to replace the old: super(Foo, self).foo(1, 2)

Now that I think about it, your proposal seems to address only one of super()'s three forms (http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-72):

  1. super(type)
  2. super(type, instance)
  3. super(type, type)

If your intention is to remove the first and third forms from the language, please justify their removal in your PEP, including your proposed work-around for their use-cases.

Collin Winter

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