is this the right way to do subclasses?

[John Salerno]

Steve Holden wrote:

>> Wait, I just might be an idiot. Is it not even necessary for me to 
>> call Character's __init__ method? Fighter will inherit it 
>> automatically and call it when a Fighter object is created, right?
>>
> By Jove, he's got it!

But I was thinking...even though there are better ways to do it than 
what I did, I wasn't too far off the mark since I really *was* 
overriding the __init__ and doing some extra initializing of my own in 
each subclass. It was just a terribly ugly way to do it. :)