I'm new to Python, and OOP. I've read most of Mark Lutz's book and more online and can write simple modules, but I still don't get when __init__ needs to be used as opposed to creating a class instance by assignment. For some strange reason the literature seems to take this for granted. I'd appreciate any pointers or links that can help clarify this.
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