On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> writes: > >> By contrast, in the first part of the *expression* >> `haha(object).theprint()`, you passed an argument (namely, `object`). >> Since __init__() wasn't expecting any arguments whatsoever, you >> therefore got an error. > > Why is everyone talking about the initialiser, ‘__init__’? > > When: > >> >>>> haha(object).theprint() >> > Traceback (most recent call last): >> > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> > TypeError: object.__new__() takes no parameters > > The error is talking about the constructor, ‘__new__’.
Because the difference between the two (and indeed, the very purpose of the latter) is a topic of intermediate/advanced difficulty, and the OP appears to be a newbie. As I stated, but your quotation omitted: >> Note: I'm oversimplifying things a bit for the sake of understandability. Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
