Name

super — Python 2.2 and later

Synopsis

super(cls,obj)

Returns a super object of object obj (which must be an instance of class cls or of a subclass of cls), suitable for calling superclass methods. In practice, you call this built-in type only within a method’s code. See Section 5.2.5.2.

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