Django view initialization ordering issues

mixins.py

class BaseViewMixin(object):
    def dispatch(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        # Set earlier to ensure that other class methods which expect
        # these values to be present can be called in `init`
        self.request = request
        self.args = args
        self.kwargs = kwargs

        # Run the complete request, returning a response, but allowing
        # `init` to either raise exceptions, or hijack the response if 
        # necessary.
        return self.init() or super(BaseViewMixin, self).dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)

    def init(self):
        # Hook to override in subclasses
        pass