I confirmed on my home laptop that super().__init__() is valid from Python 3.0 to Python 3.3.2. I just don't know how to make that code backwards compatible with at least Python 2.7. Any hints?
I confirmed on my home laptop that super().__init__() is valid from Python 3.0 to Python 3.3.2. I just don't know how to make that code backwards compatible with at least Python 2.7. Any hints?
Try and see if the py2 way works on py3 -- I suspect it does.
-Chris
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"Bo�tjan Mejak" wrote:
I confirmed on my home laptop that super().__init__() is valid from Python 3.0 to Python 3.3.2. I just don't know how to make that code backwards compatible with at least Python 2.7. Any hints?
super(derived,self).__init__() works clear back to Python 2. The
shorter syntax, super().__init__(), does not work in Python 2 and cannot
be made to work in Python 2. If you need both, don't use it. Just that
simple.
Once again, you have focused in with laser-like intensity on an
absolutely trivial point. super() is a convenience. Nothing more. You
have already wasted more time on this than you will ever save in using it.
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Not to mention that this whole super() syntax is a ugly as it can get, for
a language as beautiful as Python.
Andrea.
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def ask_mailing_list_support(email):
if mention_platform_and_version() and include_sample_app():
send_message(email)
else:
install_malware()
erase_hard_drives()
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On 6 June 2013 19:48, Tim Roberts wrote:
"Boštjan Mejak" wrote:
> I confirmed on my home laptop that super().__init__() is valid from
Python 3.0 to Python 3.3.2. I just don't know how to make that code
backwards compatible with at least Python 2.7. Any hints?super(derived,self).__init__() works clear back to Python 2. The
shorter syntax, super().__init__(), does not work in Python 2 and cannot
be made to work in Python 2. If you need both, don't use it. Just that
simple.Once again, you have focused in with laser-like intensity on an
absolutely trivial point. super() is a convenience. Nothing more. You
have already wasted more time on this than you will ever save in using it.
Which schmock named this built-in function “super” anyway? It’s just not right. I would have named it superclass(). It certainly tells you more clearly what is it supposed to be used for.
Plonk
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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:59:55 +0200
From: Boštjan Mejak <mejak.bost@gmail.com>
To: wxPython Mailing List <wxpython-users@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [wxPython-users] Benefit of using the super() methodWhich schmock named this built-in function "super" anyway? It's just not
right. I would have named it superclass(). It certainly tells you more
clearly what is it supposed to be used for.
It’s a mixed bag. “super” is standard shorthand found in Java. C++ doesn’t have a super since it supports multiple inheritance.
And it’s spelled “schmuck”.
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On Thursday, June 6, 2013, Boštjan Mejak wrote:
Which schmock named this built-in function “super” anyway? It’s just not right. I would have named it superclass(). It certainly tells you more clearly what is it supposed to be used for.
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In Yiddish it is spelled “schmock”, thank you very much. 
edoc wrote:
It's a mixed bag. "super" is standard shorthand found in Java. C++
doesn't have a super since it supports multiple inheritance.
C# calls it "base". I'm not sure that's any better.
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Tim, that name “base” isn’t any better either. 
It depends on the vocabulary.� In C++, the participants in an
inheritance relationship are called the “base” class and the
“derived” class.� C# borrowed that terminology, although they
restricted inheritance to one “base” with zero or more interfaces
(which Python calls “mix-ins”).� In that environment, “base” is the
right word.
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Bo�tjan Mejak wrote:
Tim, that name “base” isn’t any better either.
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