I meant:

class SomeBase:

    def __init__(self, base_x, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(**kwargs)
        self.base_x = base_x

On Saturday, October 28, 2017 at 3:14:31 AM UTC-4, Neil Girdhar wrote:
>
>
>
> On Friday, October 27, 2017 at 8:05:17 PM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 01:59:01PM -0700, Ilya Kulakov wrote: 
>>
>> > Since one of the legit use-cases of using the Thread class is 
>> subclassing, 
>> > I think it's __init__ should call super() to support cooperative 
>> inheritance. 
>> > 
>> > Or perhaps there is a good reason for not doing so? 
>>
>> Are you talking about threading.Thread or some other Thread? 
>>
>> If you are talking about threading.Thread, its only superclass is 
>> object, so why bother calling super().__init__? 
>>
>
> The way cooperative multiple inheritance works is that if someone defines
>
> class SomeClass(Thread):
>
>      def __init__(self, **kwargs):
>            super().__init()
>
> they expect this will initialize the base class Thread as desired.
>
> Now, if they add another base class:
>
> class SomeBase:
>
>     def __init__(self, base_x):
>         self.base_x = base_x
>
> then they need to pass up the arguments:
>
> class SomeClass(SomeBase, Thread):
>
>      def __init__(self, **kwargs):
>            super().__init(**kwargs)
>
> Unfortunately, if the order of base classes is reversed, this no longer 
> works because Thread doesn't call super:
>
> class SomeClass(Thread, SomeBase):
>
>      def __init__(self, **kwargs):
>            super().__init(**kwargs)  # SomeBase is not initialized!
>
> As things get more complicated it's not always possible to ensure that 
> Thread is the last class in the inheritance, e.g., if there are two classes 
> like Thread that don't call super.
>
>
>> To be successful, it would need to strip out all the parameters and just 
>> call: 
>>
>>     super().__init__() 
>>
>> with no args, as object.__init__() takes no parameters. And that does 
>> nothing, so what's the point? 
>>
>> I'm afraid I don't see why you think that threading.Thread needs to call 
>> super. Can you explain? 
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Steve 
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