Question

From my understanding, the function super should allow a Class that is nested within another to access its parent’s ‘self’. I may be wrong on this, but here is a simple example of what I’m trying to achieve:

class Test:
     def __init__(self):
         self.message = "Hello World"
     class Print:
         def __init__(self):
             print super(Test, self).message


this = Test()
this.Print()
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
/home1/users/joe.borg/<ipython-input-3-3eb5db70be43> in <module>()
----> 1 this.Print()

/home1/users/joe.borg/<ipython-input-1-cee67a2914c3> in __init__(self)
      4     class Print:
      5         def __init__(self):
----> 6             print super(Test, self).message
      7 

TypeError: must be type, not classobj

Answer 1

I’ve got the desired results like this:

class Test(object):
     def __init__(self):
         self.message = "Hello World"
class Print(Test):
         def __init__(self):
             print super(Print, self).message