[Tutor] Superclass call problem

[Luke Paireepinart]

Your call to super is wrong. It should be super and you pass the class
and instance, then call init.

On 2/20/10, Alan Harris-Reid <aharrisreid at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having trouble understanding how superclass calls work.  Here's
> some code...
>
> class ParentClass():
>     def __init__(self):
>         do something here
>
> class ChildClass(ParentClass):
>     def __init__(self):
>        super().__init__(self)                 # call parentclass
> __init__ method
>        do something else here
>
>
> When the super().__init__ line runs I get the error "__init__() takes
> exactly 1 positional argument (2 given)"
>
> Can anyone tell me where I have gone wrong?  I thought the self
> parameter should be passed to all class methods.
>
> TIA
> Alan Harris-Reid
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