From cb40ba1f5e5913c8f9ff807f419569301c23008f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 02:21:45 +0000
Subject: SF bug #805304:  super instances don't support item assignment

Document a nuance of super().  It is designed to work well with dotted
attribute lookup but not with equivalent implicit lookups using operators
or statements.
---
 Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
index 6d41e1d..1130eb1 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
@@ -996,6 +996,12 @@ class C(B):
     def meth(self, arg):
         super(C, self).meth(arg)
 \end{verbatim}
+
+  Note that \function{super} is implemented as part of the binding process for
+  explicit dotted attribute lookups such as
+  \samp{super(C, self).__getitem__(name)}.  Accordingly, \function{super} is
+  undefined for implicit lookups using statements or operators such as
+  \samp{super(C, self)[name]}.
 \versionadded{2.2}
 \end{funcdesc}
 
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