Commit 8ed98254 authored by Guido van Rossum's avatar Guido van Rossum

New about super.

parent 2081afba
......@@ -10,6 +10,21 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
with finalizers. (The "get attribute" and "set attribute" methods
are still called __get__ and __set__, respectively.)
- Some subtle issues with the super built-in were fixed:
(a) When super itself is subclassed, its __get__ method would still
return an instance of the base class (i.e., of super).
(b) super(C, C()).__class__ would return C rather than super. This
is confusing. To fix this, I decided to change the semantics of
super so that it only applies to code attributes, not to data
attributes. After all, overriding data attributes is not
supported anyway.
(c) The __get__ method didn't check whether the argument was an
instance of the type used in creation of the super instance.
Core and builtins
Extension modules
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