On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > No. Only add code that works and that you need. Arbitrarily adding calls > to the superclasses "just in case" may not work: > > py> class Spam(object): > ... def __init__(self, x): > ... self.x = x > ... super(Spam, self).__init__(x) > ... > py> x = Spam(1) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File "<stdin>", line 4, in __init__ > TypeError: object.__init__() takes no parameters
That's because you're subclassing something that doesn't take parameters and giving it parameters. Of course that won't work. The normal and logical thing to do is to pass on only the parameters that you know the parent class expects... but that implies knowing the parent, so it's kinda moot. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
