Juan C. wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn > <pointede...@web.de> wrote: >> To call something means generally in programming, and in Python, to >> execute it as a function instead: In the code above, the class object >> referred to by “Box” is called twice in order to instantiate twice >> (calling a class object in Python means to instantiate it, implicitly >> calling its constructor method, “__init__”, if any), and the global >> “print” function is called three times. > > Since we are talking about Python terminology I believe that calling > `__init__` a constructor is also wrong. I've already seem some ^^^^^ > discussions regarding it and the general consensus is that `__init__` > shouldn't be called constructor as it isn't really a constructor (like > Java/C# constructors). […]
IBTD: ,-<http://foldoc.org/constructor> | | constructor | | (programming) 1. In object-oriented languages, a function provided by a ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | class to initialise a newly created object. The constructor function ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | typically has the same name as the class. It may take arguments, e.g. to | set various attributes of the object or it may just leave everything ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | undefined to be set elsewhere. | | A class may also have a destructor function that is called when objects of | the class are destroyed. Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, Last updated: 2014-10-04. In Python, a class’s __init__() is called after its __new__() [1], and “typically” means “not always” (for another example, in clean PHP code the constructor’s name is “__construct”). <https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html?highlight=__init__#object.__init__> [In fact, there are constructors in object-oriented programming languages with prototype-based inheritance, like implementations of ECMAScript Ed. 1 to 7 (except 4), too.] -- PointedEars Twitter: @PointedEars2 Please do not cc me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list