SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler and __init__/super()

[Tim Chase]

Sparring with a little sandbox/test code (in 2.6, FWIW), I'm trying
to set up some instance variables in my __init__ but keep hitting my
head against the wall.

Initially, I had something of the form

  class MyServer(SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
      self.foo = "some default"
      super(MyServer, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

but, because SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler is an old-style class,
it barfed with the classic "TypeError: super() argument 1 must be
type, not classobj"

So I tossed in "object" to the class hierarchy:

  class MyServer(object, SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
      self.foo = "some default"
      super(MyServer, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

but now because it tries to pass *args/**kwargs into object.__init__
I get a "TypeError: object.__init__() takes no parameters"

I know I can just force it with

  class MyServer(SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
      self.foo = "some default"
      SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)

but I want to be sure there's not some more pythonicly proper way to
go about it.  Any thoughts on this? (other than "SocketServer should
have inherited from object which is a 2.x best-practice")

-tkc