From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:31:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: - note that super() only applies to new-style classes;
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~205
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3ede7848a9e4b01b26349c2bfeee088188f1b751;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

- note that super() only applies to new-style classes;
  closes SF bug #764003
- fix markup for consistency
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
index 0b03d47f8093..5027a04491c0 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
@@ -935,8 +935,10 @@ class C:
 \begin{funcdesc}{super}{type\optional{object-or-type}}
   Return the superclass of \var{type}.  If the second argument is omitted
   the super object returned is unbound.  If the second argument is an
-  object, isinstance(obj, type) must be true.  If the second argument is a
-  type, issubclass(type2, type) must be true.
+  object, \code{isinstance(\var{obj}, \var{type})} must be true.  If
+  the second argument is a type, \code{issubclass(\var{type2},
+  \var{type})} must be true.
+  \function{super()} only works for new-style classes.
 
   A typical use for calling a cooperative superclass method is:
 \begin{verbatim}