Calling the parent class' __init__

[Thomas Gagne]

A parent class defines some instance variables I want to access in the
subclass.  I thought I was supposed to call the super class' __init__ but
whenever I tried I got errors so I didn't--but the first time I tried
accessing the super's instance variable (oddly enough, in one of the super's
methods) I got a name error.  Wierd.

Does anyone have some pointers?

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.tom