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

Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Wed May 2 12:45:01 CEST 2007

On 02/05/2007 12.00, Christian Tanzer 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, ...

Really? http://fuhm.net/super-harmful/ Hmmm. I've just counted more than 1600 usages of super in my sandbox. And all my tests pass.

And you don't follow any of the guidelines reported in that article? And you never met any of those problems? I find it hard to believe.

The fact that your code works is of little importance, since the article is more about maintenance of existing code using super (and the suggestions he proposes are specifically for making code using super less fragile to refactorings).

Giovanni Bajo

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