[Tutor] Superclass call problem

Alan Harris-Reid aharrisreid at googlemail.com
Sat Feb 20 18:50:49 CET 2010


Hi,

I am having trouble understanding how superclass calls work.  Here's 
some code...

class ParentClass():
    def __init__(self):
        do something here

class ChildClass(ParentClass):
    def __init__(self):
       super().__init__(self)                 # call parentclass 
__init__ method
       do something else here


When the super().__init__ line runs I get the error "__init__() takes 
exactly 1 positional argument (2 given)"

Can anyone tell me where I have gone wrong?  I thought the self 
parameter should be passed to all class methods.

TIA
Alan Harris-Reid


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