Super compatibility changes and example enhancement

[sgill2]

Changed several things to address issues. Namely changed the super.init() to properly work in python2.7, and updated examples.

[davidlmobley]

Ah. Once we get automated testing working it will test that your code works in both python 3 and 2.7 automatically, so it'll be easier to deal with this.

Did you intend to CLOSE this, @sgill2 , or merge it?

[davidlmobley]

Also, does this resolve #9?

[sgill2]

I intended to merge this, but for some reason I'm getting some conflicts with the README.md that I can't automatically merge (I just added a line of text). So I was trying to fix that.

[sgill2]

And this should resolve #9.

[davidlmobley]

Ah, OK. Just leave it open, then when you fix the conflict, add a new commit with the conflict fixed and it will automatically update this PR.

(Please do also use a descriptive title aside from "Sam branch").

[davidlmobley]

(i.e. "SamBranch" is a fine name for a branch but you want to give a PR a title which says what it does.)