[Tutor] Calling super classs __init__?

[Allen Fowler]

Hello,

Now, perhaps this not the best way write code, but I have a few questions regrading calling the super classes constructor:

I have a super class that accepts many arguments to it's constructor, and a subclass that should define one additional argument.

What's the most "pythonic" way to make this work?

class MySuperClass(object):
        
    def __init__(self, opt_1, opt_2, opt_3, opt_n):
       # stuff done here
        pass


class MySubClass(MySuperClass):

    def __init__(self, just_a_sub_option):  # what about other args? **args?
        # do stuff with "just_a_sub_option"
        MySuperClass.__init__()                    # Should this be first?  What args to use? **args?
       pass


Basically, I'd like to avoid maintaining a verbose list of arguments in the subclass.

Thanks,
:)




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