"Reedick, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Only if by "construct" you mean "allocate". __init__ starts out >> with an empty object and brings it to a valid state, therefore >> "constructing" the object you end up with. That operation is >> exactly what other languages call a constructor. > > Nah. Most other languages combine the constructor and an init > function.
Maybe so, but the standard term for what Python calls __init__ is still "constructor". > Also, how can a constructor require 'self' as an argument...? > __init__(self, ...) Think of it as the equivalent of Java's and C++'s "this", except it's explicit in the argument list. "Explicit is better than implicit" and all that. :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
