> is it correct that an object cannot be re-instantiated within it's
> __init__ method?
There are some tricks you can pull but the object is actually instantiated
before the init gets called. Really init is for initialisation of the
instance,
it's not a true constructor.
> Background: I need to create a new object upon instantiation
> when a database query returns no records.
I'd probably create a factory function to do this that
returns the appropriate type of instance.
def makeDbResponseInstance(queryStatus):
if queryStatus:
return DBClass()
else: return Emptyclass()
If the two classes are subclassed from a common ancestor you
might put the factory into the class as a class method, but I'd
probably just keep it as a function. That keeps the two class's
definitions clean and decoupled from the instantiation decision
which isn't really their responsibility - children don't choose to be
born!.
Alan G.
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