Commit 15ccc4fa authored by Raymond Hettinger's avatar Raymond Hettinger Committed by GitHub

bpo-38255: super() can search attributes as well as methods (GH-16368)

Improvement suggested by Géry Ogam.
parent 00508a74
......@@ -1637,6 +1637,10 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
super().method(arg) # This does the same thing as:
# super(C, self).method(arg)
In addition to method lookups, :func:`super` also works for attribute
lookups. One possible use case for this is calling :term:`descriptor`\s
in a parent or sibling class.
Note that :func:`super` is implemented as part of the binding process for
explicit dotted attribute lookups such as ``super().__getitem__(name)``.
It does so by implementing its own :meth:`__getattribute__` method for searching
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