On Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 8:02:14 AM UTC+12, Ben Finney wrote: > (Note that ‘__init__’ is not a constructor, because it operates on the > *already constructed* instance, and does not return anything.
Believe it or not, that *is* what “constructor” means in every OO language. Technically it should be called the “initializer”, but “constructor” is the accepted term for the special method that is called to initialize a newly-allocated class instance. > Python's classes implement the constructor as ‘__new__’, and you very rarely > need to bother with that.) Python’s “__new__” goes beyond the capabilities of “constructors” in conventional OO languages. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
