[Tutor] How arguments to the super() function works?

[Alan Gauld]

On 18/05/2019 17:21, Arup Rakshit wrote:

> class Role(db.Model):
> 
>     def __init__(self, **kwargs):
>         super(Role, self).__init__(**kwargs)
> 
> Here, why super(Role, self).__init__(**kwargs) is used instead 
> of super().__init__(**kwargs) ? 

I suspect you are reading an older tutorial. It used to be the
case that you had to provide the class and instance values to
super() but that's no longer needed in the latest versions.

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