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Consider this - a base class A, class B inheriting from A, class C inheriting from B. What is a generic way to call a parent class initialiser in an initialiser? If this still sounds too vague, here's some code. class A(object): def __init__(self): print "Initialiser A was called" class B(A): def __init__(self): super(B,self).__init__() print "Initialiser B was called" class C(B): def __init__(self): super(C,self).__init__() print "Initialiser C was called" c = C() This is how I do it now. But it still seems a bit too non-generic - you still must pass a correct type by hand. Now, I've tried using self.__class__ as a first argument to super(), but, obviously it doesn't work - if you put it in the initialiser for C - fair enough, B's initialiser gets called. If you do the same in B, "self" still points to an instance of C so you end up calling B's initialiser again (this ends in an infinite recursion). There is no need to think about diamond inheritance for now, I am just interested in solving this specific problem.

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