Top "Super" questions

super is a keyword or function used to access/invoke members and constructors of a superclass.

calling a super method from a static method

Is it possible to call a super static method from child static method? I mean, in a generic way, so …

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use of python super function in django model

Here's some code in a django tutorial that I'm going through. I've never come across the super function in python …

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python multiple inheritance passing arguments to constructors using super

Consider the following snippet of python code class A(object): def __init__(self, a): self.a = a class B(A): …

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How does Python's "super" do the right thing?

I'm running Python 2.5, so this question may not apply to Python 3. When you make a diamond class hierarchy using multiple …

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"MetaClass", "__new__", "cls" and "super" - what is the mechanism exactly?

I have read posts like these: What is a metaclass in Python? What are your (concrete) use-cases for metaclasses in …

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What exactly is super in Objective-C?

As far as I know, it's a pointer to the superclass. It's hard-wired with the superclass, and not dynamically figured …

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How do I access the super-super class, in Java? [Mini-example inside]

In the example below, how can I access, from C, the method method() of the class A? class A { public …

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Rails: DoubleRenderError - "Render and/or redirect were called multiple times in this action"

I want to redirect by the role_ids of the user: If it's equal to 2, redirect to workers_path. if …

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Call to super must be first statement in the constructor, but it is

I keep getting an error saying that "call to super must be the first statement in the constructor". The problem …

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Python's Multiple Inheritance: Picking which super() to call

In Python, how do I pick which Parent's method to call? Say I want to call the parent ASDF2's __…

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