diff --git a/Lib/xml/dom/__init__.py b/Lib/xml/dom/__init__.py
index b1211f4a233..ca44b2da2b6 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/dom/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/dom/__init__.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kw):
         if self.__class__ is DOMException:
             raise RuntimeError(
                 "DOMException should not be instaniated directly")
-        apply(Exception.__init__, args, kw)
+        apply(Exception.__init__, (self,) + args, kw)
 
 
 class IndexSizeErr(DOMException):