super-harmful ;)
Just found a cool description about using super() in python: it explains nicely with simple examples all the drawback of using it, versus the “classical” __init__() method.
For a really quick look, have a read on his conclusions.
Is it perhaps a well-known argument? Well, maybe I’m wrong, but don’t seems so, cause I actually found a lot of code that use super() without (*args,**kw) and such: going fix it. 