new-style class initialization

[Martin von Loewis]

"robin and jim" <robinjim at earthlink.net> writes:

> What is the correct way to write the following where the number of
> arguments to the initializer changes throughout the inheritance
> hierarchy?

If you need to know exactly which base initializers to call and what
arguments to give them, super() is not the right way to do
that. Instead, you will need to explicitly say which initializer to
call, e.g. via

   A.__init__(self, 'B')

HTH,
Martin