Why doesn't super(Thread, self).__init__() work for a threading.Thread subclass?

Question

Every object I know of in Python can take care of its base class initialization by calling:

super(BaseClass, self).__init__()

This doesn\'t see

Answer 1

This works fine:

>>> class MyThread(threading.Thread):
...   def __init__(self):
...     super(MyThread, self).__init__()

I think your code's bug is that you're passing the base class, rather than the current class, to super -- i.e. you're calling super(threading.Thread, ..., and that's just wrong. Hard to say since you don't show your failing code, but that's what I infer obliquely from the language you're using!-)