These are good points. I can't speak for pixelmonkey, but I bet he would appreciate if you sent him a pull request with your feedback. I don't know how noisy the conversation about Python style guidelines is right now, but could be worth it.
class SomeClass(SomeOtherClass):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
# some logic
super(SomeClass, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)