Preferred way to call super class's __init__ method

Question

I would like to call the __init__ method of the superclass. Here are two way I can think of:

super().__init__(some_arg)  # I am using Python 3

# or like this:
MyBaseClass.__init__(self, some_arg)

What is the preferred way of doing it?

Answer 1

super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)   

Perceive you don't pass the "self" - it is inserted automatically.

Super() was first designed in Python 2 to allow classes to be reused as mixins in a class hierarchy in a way that their immediate superclass may change,