Re: new and updateSome() argument format

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 05:34:33PM -0400, Jacob Smullyan wrote:
>    @classmethod
>    def new(cls, **fieldData):
>        return BaseClass.new(**X(fieldData))
> 
>    @classmethod
>    def updateSome(cls, adict, *args, **fieldData):
>        return BaseClass.updateSome(X(adict), *args, **fieldData)
> 
> (I'm a little uncertain how to use super() in this situation, so I'm
> just punting on it.)

<OT xmlns:"http://digression.org/">

Just to keep myself honest, I now know that super works with
classmethods just as with instance methods:

     @classmethod
     def whatever(cls):
	super(ThisClass, cls).whatever()

For static methods, there doesn't seem anything very attractive to do
with super(), however. I suppose super(ThisClass, ThisClass) would
work. super(type) returns an unbound super object, which is claimed
here* to be relevant to the case of calling static methods, actually
needs to be bound by calling .__get__(ThisClass) to get a bound one
before you can do anything, so that is equivalent.

* http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/b1107eb3222677d8?hl=en
</OT>
-- 
Jacob Smullyan

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