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Sep 22, 2010super() is a special use of the super keyword where you call a parameterless parent constructor. In general, the super keyword can be used to call overridden methods, access hidden. Feb 23, 2009super() lets you avoid referring to the base class explicitly, which can be nice.

Nov 3, 2015the one without super hard-codes its parent's method - thus is has restricted the behavior of its method, and subclasses cannot inject functionality in the call chain. The one with super has. In fact, multiple inheritance is the only case where super() is of any use.

I'm currently learning about class inheritance in my java course and i don't understand when to use the super() call? I found this example of code where super.variable is used: 'super' object has no attribute do_something class parent:

Oct 30, 2012the implicit class used by super does not exist at this point. Thus, referencing the superclass by the hardcoded name, as one had to do prior to super in python2 will work - and is the. Aug 11, 2009the problem people have with super is more a problem of multiple inheritance.

So it is a little unfair to blame super. Without super multiple inheritance is even worse. Nov 7, 2014the use case for unbound super objects is extremely narrow and rare.

See these articles by michele simionato for his discussion on super(): Things to know about python super [1 of 3]. If we're using a class method, we don't have an instance to call super with.

Fortunately for us, super works even with a type as the second argument. --- the type can be passed directly to super as.