Method Resolution Order in case of Base Classes Having different init params

Question

I am trying to understand MRO in Python. Although there are various posts here, I am not particularly getting what I want. Consider two classes A and B

Answer 1

To understand this, try without any arguments:

class BaseClass(object):
    def __init__(self):
        print("BaseClass.__init__")

class A(BaseClass):
    def __init__(self):
        print("A.__init__")
        super(A, self).__init__()

class B(BaseClass):
    def __init__(self):
        print("B.__init__")
        super(B, self).__init__()

class C(A, B):
    def __init__(self):
        print("C.__init__")
        super(C, self).__init__()

When we run this:

>>> c = C()
C.__init__
A.__init__
B.__init__
BaseClass.__init__

This is what super does: it makes sure everything gets called, in the right order, without duplication. C inherits from A and B, so both of their __init__ methods should get called, and they both inherit from BaseClass, so that __init__ should also be called, but only once.

If the __init__ methods being called take different arguments, and can't deal with extra arguments (e.g. *args, **kwargs), you get the TypeErrors you refer to. To fix this, you need to make sure that all the methods can handle the appropriate arguments.