problem calling parent's __init__ method

[Ryan Krauss]

I am trying to call a parent's __init__ method from the child's:

class ArbitraryBlock(InnerBlock):
def __init__(self, codelist, noout=False, **kwargs):
InnerBlock.__init__(self, codelist, noout=noout, **kwargs)
I get this error:

<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: unbound method __init__() must be
called with InnerBlock instance as first argument (got ArbitraryBlock
instance instead)
I found a thread that talked about the parent and child being
different types, so I tried setting up the parent class 3 different
ways:

class InnerBlock:

class InnerBlock(object):

class InnerBlock(empty_class):

where

class empty_class(object):
def __init__(self,_d={},**kwargs):
kwargs.update(_d)
self.__dict__=kwargs

I still get the same error. Why doesn't this work?

Thanks,

Ryan

[Peter Otten]

Ryan Krauss wrote:

I am trying to call a parent's __init__ method from the child's:

class ArbitraryBlock(InnerBlock):
def __init__(self, codelist, noout=False, **kwargs):
InnerBlock.__init__(self, codelist, noout=noout, **kwargs)
I get this error:

<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: unbound method __init__() must be
called with InnerBlock instance as first argument (got ArbitraryBlock
instance instead)
I found a thread that talked about the parent and child being
different types, so I tried setting up the parent class 3 different
ways:

class InnerBlock:

class InnerBlock(object):

class InnerBlock(empty_class):

where

class empty_class(object):
def __init__(self,_d={},**kwargs):
kwargs.update(_d)
self.__dict__=kwargs

I still get the same error. Why doesn't this work?

For some reason you have two InnerBlock classes in your code. A
demonstration:

>>class A(object):

.... def __init__(self): pass
....

>>class B(A):

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

>>B()

<__main__.B object at 0x2b67aae02c90>

>>class A(object):

.... def __init__(self): pass
....

>>B()

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<stdin>", line 3, in __init__
TypeError: unbound method __init__() must be called with A instance as first
argument (got B instance instead)

Are you perhaps importing your main script into your main script?

Peter