Passing variable-length keyworded arguments list to base class constructor?

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> Starting with Python 1.6a[12], you can call Parent.__init__(self,
    >> **args).
    Jerome> And with python 1.5.2?

You must still use apply():

    class Child(Parent):
        def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
	    apply(Parent.__init__, args, kwargs)
	    ...

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