Question

I’m trying to work out what’s not working in this code:

#!/usr/bin/python  import cmd  class My_class (cmd.Cmd):     '''docstring for Twitter_handler'''     def __init__(self):         super(My_class, self).__init__()  if __name__ == '__main__':     my_handler = My_class() 

Here’s the error I get

Traceback (most recent call last):   File 'main.py', line 12, in <module>     my_handler = My_class()   File 'main.py', line 9, in __init__     super(My_class, self).__init__() TypeError: super() argument 1 must be type, not classobj 

If I change the superclass of ‘My_class’ to an object it works fine. Where am I going wrong?

Answer 1

super() only works for new-style classes