"A.T.Hofkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> while you think you are doing "Person('me', 'here', 31)", you are in
> reality executing "Person.__init__(self, 'me', 'here', 31)", where
> 'self' is refers to a shiny new, empty object created for you.
This is misleading, and founders on many discrepancies, not least of
which is that '__init__' always returns None, yet the 'Person()' call
returns the new instance. So it's quite untrue to say that one is "in
reality" calling the '__init__' method.
What one is "in reality" calling is the '__new__' method of the Person
class. That function, in turn, is creating a new Person instance, and
calling the '__init__' method of the newly-created instance. Finally,
the '__new__' method returns that instance back to the caller.
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