Issue 9519 super init with non self arg

pylint/checkers/typecheck.py

@@ -1448,6 +1448,20 @@ def _check_isinstance_args(self, node: nodes.Call, callable_name: str) -> None:
                 confidence=INFERENCE,
             )
 
+    def _is_super(self, node: nodes.Call) -> bool:
+        """True if this node is a call to super()."""
+        if (
+            isinstance(node.func, nodes.Attribute)
+            and node.func.attrname == "__init__"
+            and isinstance(node.func.expr, nodes.Call)
+            and isinstance(node.func.expr.func, nodes.Name)
+            and node.func.expr.func.name == "super"
+        ):
+            inferred = safe_infer(node.func.expr)
+            if isinstance(inferred, astroid.objects.Super):
+                return True
+        return False
+
     # pylint: disable = too-many-branches, too-many-locals, too-many-statements
     def visit_call(self, node: nodes.Call) -> None:
         """Check that called functions/methods are inferred to callable objects,
@@ -1464,22 +1478,37 @@ def visit_call(self, node: nodes.Call) -> None:
             # those errors are handled by different warnings.
             return
 
+        # Build the set of keyword arguments, checking for duplicate keywords,
+        # and count the positional arguments.
+        call_site = astroid.arguments.CallSite.from_call(node)
+
         if called.args.args is None:
             if called.name == "isinstance":
                 # Verify whether second argument of isinstance is a valid type
                 self._check_isinstance_args(node, callable_name)
-            # Built-in functions have no argument information.
+            # Built-in functions have no argument information, but we know
+            # super() only takes self.
+            if self._is_super(node) and utils.is_builtin_object(called):
+                if (
+                    call_site
+                    and call_site.positional_arguments
+                    and (first_arg := call_site.positional_arguments[0])
+                    and not (
+                        isinstance(first_arg, nodes.Name) and first_arg.name == "self"
+                    )
+                ):
+                    self.add_message(
+                        "too-many-function-args",
+                        node=node,
+                        args=(callable_name,),
+                    )
             return
 
         if len(called.argnames()) != len(set(called.argnames())):
             # Duplicate parameter name (see duplicate-argument).  We can't really
             # make sense of the function call in this case, so just return.
             return
 
-        # Build the set of keyword arguments, checking for duplicate keywords,
-        # and count the positional arguments.
-        call_site = astroid.arguments.CallSite.from_call(node)
-
         # Warn about duplicated keyword arguments, such as `f=24, **{'f': 24}`
         for keyword in call_site.duplicated_keywords:
             self.add_message("repeated-keyword", node=node, args=(keyword,))

tests/regrtest_data/super_init_with_non_self_argument.py

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+"""
+https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/issues/9519
+"""
+
+# pylint: disable=missing-class-docstring,missing-function-docstring,too-few-public-methods
+class Window:
+    def print_text(self, txt):
+        print(f'{__class__} {txt}')
+
+
+class Win(Window):
+    def __init__(self, txt):
+        super().__init__(txt)
+
+Win('hello')

tests/test_self.py

@@ -341,6 +341,20 @@ def test_wrong_import_position_when_others_disabled(self) -> None:
             actual_output = actual_output[actual_output.find("\n") :]
         assert self._clean_paths(expected_output.strip()) == actual_output.strip()
 
+    def test_super_init_with_non_self_argument(self) -> None:
+        module1 = join(HERE, "regrtest_data", "super_init_with_non_self_argument.py")
+        args = [module1, "-rn", "-sn"]
+        out = StringIO()
+        self._run_pylint(args, out=out)
+        actual_output = self._clean_paths(out.getvalue().strip())
+        expected = textwrap.dedent(
+            f"""
+        ************* Module super_init_with_non_self_argument
+        {module1}:13:8: E1121: Too many positional arguments for method call (too-many-function-args)
+        """
+        )
+        assert self._clean_paths(expected.strip()) == actual_output.strip()
+
     def test_progress_reporting(self) -> None:
         module1 = join(HERE, "regrtest_data", "import_something.py")
         module2 = join(HERE, "regrtest_data", "wrong_import_position.py")