calling superclass' method with list positional arg

[Steve Purcell]

Steven Haryanto wrote:
>          # 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?


I think you want

    apply(Bag.__init__, (self,) + args_)

-Steve

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