Calling an overridden method, superclass an calls overridden method

Question

This code throws an exception, AttributeError, "wtf!", because A.foo() is calling B.foo1(), shouldn't it call A.foo1()? How can I force it to call A.foo1() (and any method call inside A.foo() should call A.*)

class A(object):
    def foo(self):
        print self.foo1()

    def foo1(self):
        return "foo"

class B(A):
    def foo1(self):
        raise AttributeError, "wtf!"

    def foo(self):
        raise AttributeError, "wtf!"

    def foo2(self):
        super(B, self).foo()

myB = B()
myB.foo2()

Answer 1

In class A instead of calling self methods you need to call A methods and pass in self manually.

This is not the normal way of doing things -- you should have a really good reason for doing it like this.

class A(object):
    def foo(self):
        print A.foo1(self)

    def foo1(self):
        return "foo"

class B(A):
    def foo1(self):
        raise AttributeError, "wtf!"

    def foo(self):
        raise AttributeError, "wtf!"

    def foo2(self):
        super(B, self).foo()

myB = B()
myB.foo2()

Answer 2

In the code:

def foo2(self):
    super(B, self).foo()

self is an instance of B.

When a method derived from A is called by an instance of B it will start looking in the namespace from B, and only if the method is not found (e.g. is not overridden by B) the implementation from A is used, but always with self referring to B. At no point self is an instance of A.