On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 6:55:23 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:28:34 -0700, Rick Johnson wrote: > [...] >> > Since when did utilizing a method to request a specific >> > value become some sort of magic? >> >> Since it requires a special method that has super powers no >> method you can write yourself can do. > > That's hilarious. I guess you never called __init__? LOL!
Ah yes, argument by ridicule. An excellent way to cover over the fact that you have not a shred of truly viable argument to bring out. Last I checked, __init__ was just like any other dunder method: a perfectly ordinary method that happens to be called by someone else. A callback method, if you will. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list