calling superclass' method with list positional arg

[Steven Haryanto]

My Bag's constructor accepts a list positional args to fill
the object with initial data, so I can conveniently create
a bag initially filled with stuff like this:

mybag = Bag("apples", "oranges", "money")

BagOTricks is a subclass of Bag, and it needs to do something
else but let the superclass do the actual data filling.
Currently I do it like this:

class Bag:

     def __init__(self, *items):
         self._items = list(items)

     def add(self, item):
         self._items.append(item)


class BagOTricks(Bag):

     def __init__(*args):
         self = args_[0]
         # do something else first...

         # then pass the items to superclass' constructor
         apply(Bag.__init__, args_)

Is there an elegant way to do this so I can still declare
Bag's __init__ as 'def __init__(self, *items)', but I don't
need to create a temporary list like below?

class BagOTricks(Bag):

     def __init__(self, *items):
         # do something else first...

         # then pass the items to superclass' constructor
         args = list(items)
         args.insert(0, self)
         apply(Bag.__init__, args)

Thanks,
Steve