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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-09-25 15:24:12 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-09-25 15:24:12 (GMT) |
| commit | 7444a5a402bbac4268b95958a9578a9e3dae33e0 (patch) | |
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bpo-38255: super() can search attributes as well as methods (GH-16368) (GH-16391)
Improvement suggested by Géry Ogam.
(cherry picked from commit 15ccc4fac09b866d61b069c6c136aabfe4bac09c)
Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 947a0e5..0236ff0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -1635,6 +1635,10 @@ 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 |