super(...).__init__() vs Base.__init__(self)

[Jan Niklas Fingerle]

Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally, I'd call the lack of the super calls in threading.Thread and 
> Base bugs.  

It can't be a bug since it wasn't a bug before super was introduced and
you don't wan't to break working Python-2.x-code. 

> But __init__() is definitely a tricky case since the 
> number of arguments tends to change in the __init__() methods of classes...

ACK. And every __init__ will have to accept *any* arguments you give to
it and call super with *all* the arguments it got. This is tricky and
easily to get wrong. Super is a good tool to use, when dealing with
diamond shape inheritance. In any other case I would use the direct
calls to the base classes. In fact, i've yet to find a non-textbook-case
where I really need diamond shape inheritance. OTOH I don't mean to say
that noone else needs it either.

cu, 
  --Jan Niklas