M.E.Farmer wrote:
Jeffrey Borkent Systems Specialist Information Technology Services
With that kind of credentials, and the fact that you claim you are a system specialists.... I don't know you have me worried already. I guess for you I just say RTFM. If you think that is harsh then don't ask a 2nd grade question yet claim/pretend to be some sorta system specialists.
Hey, ease up, this is comp.lang.python, remember.
Next time, could we try exchanging the body of the message and the PS? That way you could have omitted the PS when you got half way through it and realised you were just wasting your time and everyone else's ...You tried searching the archives first I am sure. Go here http://www.python.org and *read*, come back when you are really stuck. M.E.Farmer P.S. YES the __ matter, they identify special methods ! __init__ is the class CONSTRUCTOR.
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