Classes and threading

[Adam W.]

I thought I knew how classes worked, but this code sample is making my
second guess myself:

import threading

class nThread(threading.Thread):
    def __init__(self):
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)

    def run(self,args):
        print self.name
        print self.args

pants = nThread(args=('fruit'),name='charlie')
pants.start()

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Adam\Desktop\PyTiVo\task_master.py", line 13, in
<module>
    pants = nThread(args=('fruit'),name='charlie')
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'args'

Shouldn't __init__ still handle these (as per
http://docs.python.org/library/threading.html#thread-objects ), even
if its subclassed?  I thought this was the whole idea of inheritance
and overdriving.


And sort of related, why does this crash IDLE GUI but not the command
line?:

import threading

class nThread(threading.Thread):

    def run(self):
        print 2+2

pants = nThread()
pants.start()