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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-09-25 08:24:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-09-25 08:24:24 -0700 |
| commit | 3b5e9241142d6b7c22059115c0e68a8912753818 (patch) | |
| tree | 094b6fdcf4a0341db4657b3c70164e90423c8c00 | |
| parent | d3666945d78508970002653c4d46221a4306f55b (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-3b5e9241142d6b7c22059115c0e68a8912753818.tar.gz | |
bpo-38255: super() can search attributes as well as methods (GH-16368) (GH-16392)
Improvement suggested by Géry Ogam.
(cherry picked from commit 15ccc4fac09b866d61b069c6c136aabfe4bac09c)
Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/functions.rst | 4 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 313dbffdcd..06ba323ca3 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -1532,6 +1532,10 @@ 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 |