super() raises “TypeError: must be type, not classobj” for new-style class
问题 The following use of super() raises a TypeError: why? >>> from HTMLParser import HTMLParser >>> class TextParser(HTMLParser): ... def __init__(self): ... super(TextParser, self).__init__() ... self.all_data = [] ... >>> TextParser() (...) TypeError: must be type, not classobj There is a similar question on StackOverflow: Python super() raises TypeError, where the error is explained by the fact that the user class is not a new-style class. However, the class above is a new-style class, as it