On 7/16/19 3:29 PM, James Hartley wrote: > I ask this having more C++ knowledge than sense. > > There is an adage in the halls of everything Stroustrup that one needs to > think about how resource allocation will be unwound if an exception is > thrown. This gets watered down to the mantra "Don't throw exceptions from > within constructors." Does this carry over to Python? I'm trying to > develop a Pythonistic mindset as opposed to carrying over old baggage...
If you mean __init__, that's not a constructor, so you should set your mind at rest :) It's more properly an "initializer", the instance has already been constructed when it's called. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
