[$] Super Python (part 1)

A mega-thread in the python-ideas mailing list is hardly surprising, ofcourse; wehave covered quite a few of them over the years. A recent examplehelps shine a light into a dark-or at least dim-corner of the Pythonlanguage: the super()built-in function for use by methods in class hierarchies.There are some, perhaps surprising, aspects to super() along withwrinkles in how to properly use it. But it has been part of the languagefor a long time, so changes to its behavior, as was suggested in thethread, are pretty unlikely.