Python inheritance, class level variables, __init__ takes no arguments

Question

Edit: This is a silly mistake, look at the answers, but my init method does not define a self variable.

I have several python classes that are stages in a pipeline. They inherit from a base class.

class StageBase(object):
    key = Segments.NONE
    _preprocessors = []

    def __init__():
        self.closing = False
        self.working = False
        self._que = None
        self._working_lock = None
        self._que_lock = None

    #whole bunch of other methods

The inheriting classes override key and _preprocessors. Before adding the explicit __init__() method, everything worked fine, now I get the following error:

TypeError: __init__() takes no arguments (1 given)

The line of the error is the line where I override _preprocessors (in this example, this class variable represents other stages that should be executed before this stage).

An example class that throws this error:

class StaticPageStage(StageBase):
    key = Segments.STATICPAGE
    _preprocessors = [FacebookGraphStage(), ]

    def __init__():
        pass

    def process(self, data):
        data = self._preprocess(data)
        return self.handle_results(tuple(x for x in data))

Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

Answer 1

You need to add the default self parameter to __init__:

def __init__(self):

Answer 2

init must have at least one argument in its signature:

def __init__(self):
    pass

Here the error comes probably from FacebookGraphStage. Check its init method (and the other ones in your files) to solve the problem