Re: Python gdb.Function is an old-style class?

Paul_Koning
2016-07-21T18:06:16Z

> On Jul 21, 2016, at 1:38 PM, Paul Koning <Paul_Koning@dell.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On Jul 21, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> wrote:
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>> Hi all; I am writing some Python functions that subclass from
>> gdb.Function, and I use super() to call the superclass __init__()
>>
>> It works, but pylint is failing with an error "Use of super on an old
>> style class". This is usually shown when a Python2 class does not
>> inherit, ultimately, from the object.
>>
>> Is there something magic that needs to happen to make gdb.Function
>> recognized as a new-style class?
>
> You could just call gdb.Function.__init__(self) explicitly rather than the syntactic sugar of super().

I just tried the example shown in the manual, and it runs without errors. I don't get the error message you quoted, and the resulting function works correctly.

So disregard my previous comment about subclassing. Sorry about the confusion.

paul