Way to call super(MyClass, self).__init__() without MyClass?

Question

I find this syntax astoundingly annoying. Every time I rename my class, I have to change this call for no apparent reason. Isn't there some __class__ magic variable or something I can use at least? Interested in answers for Python 2.5, but it doesn't hurt to know if later versions fixed this.

Answer 1

As far as I know, this isn't possible in 2.5. However, in 3.0, this was changed so that you can simply call super().__init__().