[Python] What is the difference between super() with arguments and without arguments?

I encountered a code which uses the super() method in 2 different ways, and I can't understand what's the difference in the logic.

I'm learning right now the pygame module and I got a task to create a class of a Ball which inherits from Sprite which is a class from the pygame module (if I'm not mistaken).

I encountered this code:

import pygame

class Ball(pygame.sprite.Sprite):

def __init__(self, x, y):
super(Ball, self).__init__()


And I can't understand the difference from:

import pygame

class Ball(pygame.sprite.Sprite):

def __init__(self, x, y):
super().__init__()


(Argument of super() method)

What is the difference between those code blocks in their logic? Why do I need to pass to super() method arguments? What are those arguments required to be?

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