This was discussed here: https://bugs.python.org/issue46757<div><br></div><div>This came up because I had a dataclass subclass to flax.linen.Module that had its own post-init.&nbsp; When I figured out that I needed to call super, I did so.&nbsp; &nbsp;Later, when I refactored my code to remove the superclass, the super-call was broken.</div><div><br></div><div>It have been much simpler to always call super in __post_init__ from the start.&nbsp; The proposal on the bug report was to get in the habit of doing:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">        if hasattr(super(), "__post_init__"):
            super().__post_init__()

or:

        try:
            post_init = super().__post_init__
        except AttributeError:
            pass
        else:
            post_init()</span><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>I think it will be difficult to convince projects to do this.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Neil</div></div>