By Austin Bingham

You probably already know how to use Python's super() to call base-class implementations of methods. But do you really know what it's doing? The details of super() are elegant, interesting, and powerful, and while super() is probably more complex than you expect, it's also surprisingly easy to understand. In this series we'll explore super() by first uncovering a bit of a mystery. To resolve the mystery, we'll look a bit under Python's hood to see how super() really works.

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