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

[Phil Thompson]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:58:41 +0800, Steven Woody <narkewoody at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Phil Thompson
> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 
> so ... in what case can I use super() safely and in what case I can not?

I can't promise it is safe at all.

Phil