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

James Y Knight foom at fuhm.net
Mon Apr 30 05:41:56 CEST 2007

On Apr 29, 2007, at 9:07 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

Nearly always wrong? You must be kidding. There are tons of reasons to call your super method with modified arguments. E.g. clipping, transforming, ... That's a good point. Just because the signature is the same doesn't mean the values of the parameters need to be the same.

This is quite true, and is indeed one case where it can be right to
pass different arguments. Just in case there was confusion, I did not
intend to imply that it should be impossible to pass different
arguments, only that passing the same ones should be foolproof and
not require repeating yourself.

James

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