Dan Sommers wrote: > [snip] > >>How does it help that Parent.__init__ gets called? That call simply >>would create a temporary Parent object, right? I don't see how it >>should help (even though it *does* indeed work). > > > The __init__ method is an *initializer*, *not* a constructor. By the > time __init__ runs, the object has already been constructed; __init__ > just does extra initialization. > > Regards, > Dan >
Right. Thanks for the clarification. :) -- (remove zeez if demunging email address) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list