I'd say NOT wanting to call an __init__ method of a superclass is a
rather uncommon occurence. It's generally a huge error. So I think
it's worth not accomodating that.
2018-05-28 9:27 GMT+02:00 Michael Lohmann <mial.lohm...@gmail.com>:
>
>>> class Magic:
>>> magic_number = 42
>>> def __init__(self):
>>> A.magic_number = 0 # As soon as you look too deep into it all
>>> the Magic vanishes
>>
>> What is A here? Did you mean something else?
>
> Sorry for that. Yes, it should have been Magic (I renamed the class after
> writing it and didn’t pay attention). I just wanted to override the
> class-variable `magic_number` to give a reason why I don’t ever want to call
> Magic.__init__ in Foo. If you want, you can have this class instead:
>
> class Magic:
> def __init__(self):
> raise RuntimeError("Do not initialize this class")
>
> but I figured that this might look a bit artificial...
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