IS there any magic I can use in Python to to effectively use super constructor by just adding some extra arguments?

Ideally I'd like to use something like:

class ZipArchive(zipfile.ZipFile):
    def __init__(self, verbose=True, **kwargs):
        """
        Constructor with some extra params.

        For other params see: zipfile.ZipFile
        """
        self.verbose = verbose
        super(ZipArchive, self).__init__(**kwargs)

And then be able to use the original constructor arguments mixed with some extra stuff from my class. Like so:

zip = ZipArchive('test.zip', 'w')
zip = ZipArchive('test.zip', 'w', verbose=False)

I'm using Python 2.6, but if the magic can only be achieved in higher version of Python then I'm interested too.

EDIT: I should probably mention that above doesn't work. The error is: TypeError: __init__() takes at most 2 arguments (3 given)

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