-On [20080113 13:36], Fredrik Lundh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >given that they do different things, I'm not sure it's that helpful to >describe them *both* as constructors.
I am still behind in my learning. ;) To restate it more correctly: __init__ is akin to a constructor. I am not entirely sure I fully understand __new__'s semantics though. The first read-through of http://docs.python.org/ref/customization.html makes it sound very similar to a call like: var = Object(arguments=...) I must not be understanding something and __new__'s documentation there is not that clear to me, to be honest. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ I think, therefore I am... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
