Python child class initialiser argument

Question

I have a parent class whose initialiser has three argument, now I want to have a child class whose initialiser only has two argument, but it's telling me it has to be given three arguments when I try to create the child object.

class Parent(Exception):
    def _init_(self, a, b):
    ...
    super(Parent, self)._init_(a, b)

class Child(Parent):
    def _init_(self, b):
        super(Child, self)._init_(123, b)

# somewhere in the code I have:
raise Child("BAD_INPUT")

What I'm trying to do is instantiate a Child object with only one argument then in the initialiser of that Child object call Parent's initialiser and pass in two argument, one is hard-coded (123) .

Error I got: TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)

Answer 1

you should be able to use:

class Parent(Exception):
    def __init__(self, a, b):
        self.a = a
        self.b = b

class Child(Parent):
    a = 123
    def __init__(self, b):
        super().__init__(self.a, b)