[PyQt] When can I use 'super' and When I can not

[Phil Thompson]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:01:35 +0800, Steven Woody <narkewoody at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Jason Voegele <jason at jvoegele.com>
wrote:
>> On Tuesday 13 January 2009 09:53:08 pm Steven Woody wrote:
>>> In the book 'Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt',  chapter 5,
>>> the author said that the 'super' method won't work in an example code,
>>> that is a override 'accept()' method, in the end of the 'accept()'
>>> method, one need to call base class's 'accept()' method.  But if you
>>> write the code using something like 'super(.., self).accept(self)', it
>>> will fail, you have to rather write it as QDialog.accept(self).   But
>>> in the same example program, in the form's __init__() method, it does
>>> use the 'super()' method without problem.
>>>
>>> So, my question is, in exactly what case I can not use super()? 
Thanks.
>>
>> My personal policy is to never use super() at all.  It has some subtle
>> and
>> dangerous behaviors that can really bite you if you're not careful.  See
>> here:
>>
>>    http://fuhm.net/super-harmful/
>>
> 
> So much thanks for your paper.  If I am still curious about the answer
> for my original question, would anyone help?  Thanks.

It's to do with a conflict with the hackish implementation of super() (not
doing attribute lookup in the normal way) and the way SIP implements lazy
methods.

Phil