Passing variable-length keyworded arguments list to base class constructor?

[Gordon McMillan]

Jerome Quelin wrote:

>gmcm at hypernet.com (Gordon McMillan) wrote:
>>>But how to pass this dictionnary to the parent class constructor?
>>class F(Frame):
>>  def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
>>    apply(Frame.__init__, (self,)+args, kwargs)
>>Generally you have to muck with the kwargs dict before passing it to the 
>>base class __init__.

>That is exactly what I want to know: what this mucking consists of?

Depends on what args the base class expects. If the base class expects 
**kwargs, then you can have anything in there.

But if the base class were defined:
class Frame:
  def __init__(self, x=0, y=0):
    ....

And the kwargs you pass it has {'snoo':33,...}, it's going to barf.

But maybe you've been playing with the interpreter, and have discovered all 
this by now...

- Gordon