calling superclass __init__ when superclass is object

Evan Klitzke evan at yelp.com
Thu Aug 2 01:15:36 EDT 2007


Hi list,

I was reading this article: http://fuhm.net/super-harmful/ and didn't
understand the comment about calling super(Foo, self).__init__() when
Foo inherits only from object. Can someone on the list elaborate more
on why one should do this?

-- 
Evan Klitzke <evan at yelp.com>



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