Brendan Barnwell wrote:
If I understand correctly, the essence of your argument seems to be
that you want be able to write a class A, and you want to be able to use
that class EITHER as the top of an inheritance chain (i.e., have it
inherit directly from object) OR in the middle of an inheritance chain
(i.e., inheriting from some other class, but not object).
This shouldn't be a problem if each method along the way
absorbs all the arguments it knows about, and only passes
on the ones it doesn't. E.g.
class A:
def __init__(self, alpha, **kwds):
print("alpha =", alpha)
super().__init__(**kwds)
class B(A):
def __init__(self, beta, **kwds):
print("beta =", beta)
super().__init__(**kwds)
b = B(alpha = 17, beta = 42)
Both A and B here pass on a **kwds argument, but by the
time it get to object, there are no arguments left, so
it's fine.
--
Greg
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