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

django, pylint, python

Solution

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

Problem

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?

Original source

Related problems