extending inherited function

[Andy Beall]

I'm using class inheritance and both my base and derived classes define
an __init__ function.  But it appears that the derived class overwrites
the __init__ function of the base class.  Is there a way to extend the
base class function without overwriting, or just have both __init__
functions called?

Thanks,
Andy-

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