In article <mailman.6233.1391214984.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> I found calling __init__ the constructor very confusing. I've heard many people say this, and it's always sort of befuddled me. In C++, a constructor is really an initializer too. By the time C++'s Foo::Foo() or Python's Foo.__init__() get called, memory has already been allocated, so I would say the object has been constructed. Yet, C++ people are perfectly happy calling this "thing that takes some allocated hunk of memory and sets its attributes to useful values" a constructor[1], and Python people are not. [1] Well, they really call it a ctor, but I chalk that up to the same sort of silliness that makes pythonistas pronounce "__" as "dunder" :-) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
