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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:18:03 -0400
Subject: Re: Should one always add super().__init__() to the __init__?
To: "Steven D'Aprano" <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info>
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On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@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 a good thing. We've gone from code that doesn't call the
initializer and leaves the object in a potentially invalid state
(silently!), to code that calls the initializer and then fails
(loudly).

-- Devin