Python 3 Object-Oriented Programming - Third Edition

Different sets of arguments

This is going to make things complicated as we return to our Friend multiple inheritance example. In the __init__ method for Friend, we were originally calling __init__ for both parent classes, with different sets of arguments:

Contact.__init__(self, name, email) 
AddressHolder.__init__(self, street, city, state, code) 

How can we manage different sets of arguments when using super? We don't necessarily know which class super is going to try to initialize first. Even if we did, we need a way to pass the extra arguments so that subsequent calls to super, on other subclasses, receive the right arguments.

Specifically, if the first call to super passes the name and email arguments to Contact.__init__, and Contact.__init__ ...