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. 
I’ve always been a fan of the ikeahackers blogspot site, I love build myself things, make wood handworks, and so on.
In order to have the possibility of writing something about it, well, I broke my bed… Yes, you read correctly: I broke my bed. Well, not really intentionally… anyway, it happens, no matter why… That’s how looked my bed in his bad state:
So, convinced that I’m too much “penniless” to buy a new shiny bed, I’ve really hacked it in order to have it repaired(of course), and even stronger than before. I used some pieces of the baseboard of my kitchen ( obviusly an ikea kitchen 
), here they are:
With some hole, a rasping file and some self-tapping screws, I was able to put these pieces toghether:
That’s how the work was going on, I managed to have the baseboard tied to the bed :
And then the final result:
Awesome, now I can have peaceful rests.
After long time not working on it, and after some people asked me about the status of this package in Ubuntu, I’ve updated smile packages to the latest 1.0 version (and set up a ppa for “publishing” purposes).
Anyone can take it, test it and report any problems to me, considering that’s not in my higher priorities, though…
I dismissed Smile ITP, since I decided I don’t want to “officially package” smile, for a number of reasons (one of which is that I’m not using it anymore). Smile is currently in a “repositories limbo”, and so it’s out of both Debian and Ubuntu archives, thought it’s at least in four other different places: my ppa, Marillat’s repository, getdeb.net and revu (not considering the outdated one linked on smile homepage).
This piece of software definitely needs some love, and people willing to help can take our work and submit it to have eventually an official package… I said “our” as probably you’d want to contact Matthias as well, which uploaded it to GetDeb and worked with me. Or even better, you can talk with Marillat, and resurrect Debian Smile ITP.