What is the pythonic way to skip parent method?

Question

class A:
  def open_spider(self, spider):
    #do some hacking

class B(A):
  def open_spider(self, spider):
    super(B, self).open_spider(spider)
    #something else

Now I want C to call A's method but not B's, which can be done at least in two ways:

  class C(B):
    def open_spider(self, spider):
      A.open_spider(self, spider)
      #do things

  class C(B):
    def open_spider(self, spider):
      super(B, self).open_spider(spider)
      #do things

Answer 1

You can do it using the second way. But I must say that part where child skips parent method and call grandparent instead is wrong and you should take a look on your design once again and think about it.

Answer 2

Use the second method; this is one reason why super takes a class as its first argument.