[Tutor] Calling super classs __init__?

[Allen Fowler]

> Nowadays the best practice for invoking a method from all superclasses
> (yes, multiple inheritance) is this:
> 
> class SubClass(BaseClass):
>     def __init__(self, t, *args, **kw):
>         super(SubClass, self).__init__(*args, **kw)
>         # do something with t
> 
> That way you let Python decide which superclasses your SubClass has,
> instead of hard-coding it in several places.
>

Excellent.  Thank you.  This seems far more logical.

Is there a proper way to handle the case when SubClass() is called using positional arguments, and you do not desire "t" to be at the beginning?

Thanks again,
:)





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