Simeon Visser added the comment: Is it worth clarifying that __init__ can return a value but only the value None? The following won't raise a TypeError:
class O(object): def __init__(self): return None Admittedly the "return None" is the default behaviour but people may attempt this in order to "block creation" of the instance (as __new__ is less well-known, I have seen the above attempted on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26896941/proper-way-to-terminate-object-creation-inside-of-init/) ---------- nosy: +simeon.visser _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20467> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com