Inheritance of @autoclass tagged classes (@autodict inheritance issues)

[smarie]

As of today inheritance is not intuitive:

from autoclass import autoclass

@autoclass
class Foo:
    def __init__(self, foo):
        pass

@autoclass
class Bar(Foo):
    def __init__(self, bar):
        pass

yields

> ValueError: @autodict can not be set on classes that are already subclasses of Mapping, and therefore already behave like dict

In order for this to work, you have to use @autoclass(autodict=False) in the parent class. But this is not user-friendly. The proposal would be to remove this exception, and make all dict implemented methods call the corresponding super() method where appropriate

[smarie]

For the record, the correct way to write the above example is:

from autoclass import autoclass

@autoclass
class Foo:
    def __init__(self, foo):
        pass

@autoclass
class Bar(Foo):
    def __init__(self, bar, foo):
        super(Bar, self).__init__(foo)  # note that the constructor is optional in this case.