@tseaver By adding this I go from 10 to 11 arguments (10 are part of the original interface) and I make pylint angry.

Would you prefer I

• Use **kwargs for supporting the legacy signature (this breaks any argument order unless we also use *args and manually do the mapping, which would break existing code that uses happybase)
• Raise the global limit from 10 to 11
• pylint: disable= locally

@jgeewax How important is having the signature of our gcloud.bigtable.happybase.Connection the same as happybase.Connection?