kelin,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It says the __init__ is called immediately after an instance of the > class is created. What dose "immediately" mean? > And what is difference between the init method and the constructor in > Java?
For all intents and purposes, __init__ is a constructor. It isn't technically, but you use it exactly the same way you use constructors in C++ and Java (well, acutally, Python __init__ is a quite bit more flexible, though also less convenient in many cases). Don't worry that it isn't called a constructor. In Python, the real constructor is called __new__, but you shouldn't use __new__ like C++ and Java constructors. Usually there's no reason to use __new__ at all. (The main use case is to return something other than a newly created object, such as a preallocated or cached object. For your normally functioning classes, you should use __init__.) Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
