-On [20080113 01:41], Erik Lind ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >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.
I personally tend to see __init__ or __new__ as equivalent to what other languages call a constructor. (And I am sure some people might disagree with that. ;)) -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ The riddle master himself lost the key to his own riddles one day, and found it again at the bottom of his heart. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list