[qmtest] [PATCH] fix "save expectation" command

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:39:21PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 21:55, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 22:33, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > > > The command is broken because since 2003-05-09 the Result.__init__ method
> > > > does not have "context" parameter, while
> > > > QMTestSever.HandleSaveExpectations tries to pass it.
> > >
> > > I applied this patch.
> > 
> > BTW, could you tell why QMTest uses:
> > 
> >     super(TemporaryAttachmentStore, self).__init__(path)
> > 
> > instead of 
> > 
> >     FileAttachmentStore.__init__(self, path)
> 
> This is a new feature in Python that, as you say, avoids having to
> explicitly name the super class.  It would be even nicer if you could
> just say "super(self).__init__(path)", but you can't, and there are some
> technical reasons for that.

It also works correctly in the case of multiple inheritance, which
wasn't really possible to get right before.
http://www.python.org/2.2.1/descrintro.html is probably the best
current documentation on this stuff. 

You could actually use a little metaclass to make sugar like
self.__super.__init__(path) work, but perhaps that's getting a bit
overkill.

-- Nathaniel

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