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Bug with super() and reload()?

Jp Calderone exarkun at intarweb.us
Thu Jan 16 12:00:49 EST 2003 
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 01:48:22PM +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:
> I stumbled over the following problem with super() and reload().
> 
> Consider this module:
> 
> [snip code]
> 
> prints this traceback:
> 
>     Y.test
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "<stdin>", line 8, in ?
>       File "mod.py", line 8, in test
>         super(Y, self).test()
>     TypeError: super(type, obj): obj must be an instance or subtype of type
> 
> Thinking hard, I can understand why this traceback occurs: The object
> 'y' is not an instance of the 'Y' refered to in the source code.
> 
> Should this be considered a bug, or is it simply a wart, and reload
> should be avoided?

  One could look at it as a wart, though I personally wouldn't.  Regardless,
it can be worked around.

See twisted.python.rebuild (http://www.twistedmatrix.com) for an example of
how ;)

  Jp

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