Rob, > Returning None will specifically NOT accomplish the thing you want; > nothing ever checks the return value of __init__.
I thought to have read that when you return a none from it the object itself would return a placeholder singleton. > Raise an exception. Yeah, that was what I was thinking too - up until the moment I realized that the than-needed "try" around creating the object would catch /all/ errors in there, and not just the "can't initialize" one ... I might have misunderstood that though. Regards, Rudy Wieser -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
