Calling a base class's classmethod in Python

Question

Consider the following code:

class Base(object):

    @classmethod
    def do(cls, a):
        print cls, a

class Derived(Base):

    @classmethod
    def d         


        

Answer 1

this has been a while, but I think I may have found an answer. When you decorate a method to become a classmethod the original unbound method is stored in a property named 'im_func':

class Base(object):
    @classmethod
    def do(cls, a):
        print cls, a

class Derived(Base):

    @classmethod
    def do(cls, a):
        print 'In derived!'
        # Base.do(cls, a) -- can't pass `cls`
        Base.do.im_func(cls, a)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    d = Derived()
    d.do('hello')