Question

I find this syntax astoundingly annoying. Every time I rename my class, I have to change this call for no apparent reason. Isn’t there some __class__ magic variable or something I can use at least? Interested in answers for Python 2.5, but it doesn’t hurt to know if later versions fixed this.

Answer 1

If your class only inherits from one class it is safe to do just this:

class B(A):
    def __init__(self):
        A.__init__(self)

But I could be mistaken.