[Tutor] Calling super in __init__

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Kent and Paul, Thanks very much for your help!



On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Paul McGuire <ptmcg at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Hi - I wrote a custom exception class as follows:
>
> class CustomError(Exception):
>    def __init__(self, msg):
>        super(CustomError, self).__init__(self, msg)
>
> But this doesn't work as expected:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Correct use of super would be:
>
> class CustomError(Exception):
>    def __init__(self, msg):
>         super(CustomError, self).__init__(msg)
>
> (Don't add self as an argument.)
>
> Exception became a new-style class in Python 2.5.
>
> -- Paul
>
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