How to make super() work by manually filling the __class__ cell?

Question

In Python 3 one can use super() instead of super(MyClass, self), but this only works in methods that were defined inside the class. As described in

Answer 1

Maybe, but by would you? In both cases you need to somehow be explicit of which class it is, because the implicit way didn't work. Maybe you can set the cell explicitly somehow, but there is no reason to do that. Just pass in the parameters explicitly.

def __init__(self):
    print('calling __init__')
    super(self.__class__, self).__init__()

class C(object):
    __init__ = __init__

if __name__ == '__main__':
    c = C()

(It's better if you can pass in the actual class directly, like so:

def __init__(self):
    print('calling __init__')
    super(C, self).__init__()

class C(object):
    __init__ = __init__

if __name__ == '__main__':
    c = C()

But if you can that, you could put the __init__ on C directly, so assume you can't.