Question

I want to inherit the collection arg from the Base class. How?

class Base(object):
    def __init__(self, collection=None, classname=None):
        self.__collection__ = collection or self.__class__.__name__

class Thing(Base):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        super(Thing, self).__init__()
        self.__dict__.update(kwargs)


t = Thing(collection='foobar')
t.__collection__

>>> 'Thing'

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Answer 1

I don’t usually use super(). I instead call the __init__ function directly. Something like:

class Base(object):
    def __init__(self, collection=None, classname=None):
        self.__collection__ = collection or self.__class__.__name__

class Thing(Base):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        #super(Thing, self).__init__()
        Base.__init__(self, **kwargs)
        #self.__dict__.update(kwargs)


t = Thing(collection='foobar')
print(t.__collection__)

Should yield what you want.