In article <7ace3de0-4588-4b7d-9848-d97298717...@z41g2000yqz.googlegroups.com>, n00m <n...@narod.ru> wrote: >> Or just raise an exception in __init__(),.. > >Then we are forced to handle this exception outside of class code.
Absolutely! That's the whole point. If you can't construct the class, you *should* raise an error. The only other workable option is to leave the target set to None, which is uglier because you don't track the error. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ The best way to get information on Usenet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
