Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>In other words, the object is constructed in Python before any >>__init__ is called, but in C++ it isn't constructed until after all >>the base class constructors have returned. > > But if "construction" is what a constructor does, then you're wrong. > I may be wrong (my C++ is getting rusty), but my belief is that if you have a base class B and a derived class D, then until the B() constructor has returned, the type of the object (as indicated by RTTI or by calling virtual methods) is a B. It isn't until after the B constructor has returned that the object is changed into a D.
This is different from Python's behaviour where the object is created as its final type and then initialised. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
