Python super() behavior not dependable

Question

For some reason, the super() method is not always behaving as expected, opting to return:

TypeError(\'super(type, obj): obj must be an instance or          


        

Answer 1

Are you reloading modules somehow in the middle of things? If so, that may explain this error.

isinstance(self,DBAdminConnection) may become false after reloading modules because of the changes to memory references, apparently.

Edit: if you're running your web.py app under mod_wsgi, make sure you're disabling autoreload:

app = web.application(urls, globals(), autoreload=False)