How does Python's super() work with multiple inheritance?

Question

I\'m pretty much new in Python object oriented programming and I have trouble understanding the super() function (new style classes) especially when it comes to

Answer 1

This is to how I solved to issue of having multiple inheritance with different variables for initialization and having multiple MixIns with the same function call. I had to explicitly add variables to passed **kwargs and add a MixIn interface to be an endpoint for super calls.

Here A is an extendable base class and B and C are MixIn classes both who provide function f. A and B both expect parameter v in their __init__ and C expects w. The function f takes one parameter y. Q inherits from all three classes. MixInF is the mixin interface for B and C.

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class A(object):
    def __init__(self, v, *args, **kwargs):
        print "A:init:v[{0}]".format(v)
        kwargs['v']=v
        super(A, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.v = v


class MixInF(object):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        print "IObject:init"
    def f(self, y):
        print "IObject:y[{0}]".format(y)


class B(MixInF):
    def __init__(self, v, *args, **kwargs):
        print "B:init:v[{0}]".format(v)
        kwargs['v']=v
        super(B, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.v = v
    def f(self, y):
        print "B:f:v[{0}]:y[{1}]".format(self.v, y)
        super(B, self).f(y)


class C(MixInF):
    def __init__(self, w, *args, **kwargs):
        print "C:init:w[{0}]".format(w)
        kwargs['w']=w
        super(C, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.w = w
    def f(self, y):
        print "C:f:w[{0}]:y[{1}]".format(self.w, y)
        super(C, self).f(y)


class Q(C,B,A):
    def __init__(self, v, w):
        super(Q, self).__init__(v=v, w=w)
    def f(self, y):
        print "Q:f:y[{0}]".format(y)
        super(Q, self).f(y)