Django forms.ModelForm, Pylint, and new/old style classes

Question

I have a Django 1.5 form that looks like this (simplified):

class BidForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        fields = (
        )
        model = Bid

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(BidForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        something()

When I run Pylint on this, I get a this error:

E1002:<line,row>:BidForm.__init__: Use of super on an old style class

I assume this means the Django's forms.ModelForm is an old-style class and per the python docs my call to super is not happening and is therefore extraneous. Is this true? Can I just delete the super call without effect?

Answer 1

No. Pylint, great though it is, is far from infallible, and in this case has just got it wrong. ModelForm is a new style class and the super is needed.

Answer 2

This error/warning has nothing to do with the ModelForm class and has to do with:

    class Meta:
        fields = ()
        model = Bid

You just need to suppress the warning:

    class Meta:  # pylint: disable=C1001
        fields = ()
        model = Bid