How does Python’s “super” do the right thing?

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Change your code to this and I think it’ll explain things (presumably super is looking at where, say, B is in the __mro__?):

class A(object):
    def __init__(self):
        print "A init"
        print self.__class__.__mro__

class B(A):
    def __init__(self):
        print "B init"
        print self.__class__.__mro__
        super(B, self).__init__()

class C(A):
    def __init__(self):
        print "C init"
        print self.__class__.__mro__
        super(C, self).__init__()

class D(B, C):
    def __init__(self):
        print "D init"
        print self.__class__.__mro__
        super(D, self).__init__()

x = D()

If you run it you’ll see:

D init
(<class '__main__.D'>, <class '__main__.B'>, <class '__main__.C'>, <class '__main__.A'>, <type 'object'>)
B init
(<class '__main__.D'>, <class '__main__.B'>, <class '__main__.C'>, <class '__main__.A'>, <type 'object'>)
C init
(<class '__main__.D'>, <class '__main__.B'>, <class '__main__.C'>, <class '__main__.A'>, <type 'object'>)
A init
(<class '__main__.D'>, <class '__main__.B'>, <class '__main__.C'>, <class '__main__.A'>, <type 'object'>)

Also it’s worth checking out Python’s Super is nifty, but you can’t use it.

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