[Python-Dev] PEP 3135 (new super()) class references broken in 3.3 (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun May 20 15:03:21 CEST 2012

On Sun, 20 May 2012 18:51:27 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

PEP 3135 defines the new zero-argument form of super() as implicitly equivalent to super(class, ), and up until 3.2 has behaved accordingly: if you accessed class from inside a method, you would receive a reference to the lexically containing class.

In 3.3, that currently doesn't work: you get NameError instead (http://bugs.python.org/issue14857) While the 3.2 behaviour wasn't documented in the language reference, it's definitely documented in PEP 3135 (and my recent updates to the 3.3 version of the metaclass docs were written accordingly - that's how I discovered the problem)

The question is, do we want to support it? What's the use case?

Regards

Antoine.

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