It seems to me that the Python class system is needlessly confusing. Am I missing something?
For example in the class Complex given in the documentation *class Complex:* * def __init__(self, realpart, imagpart):* * self.r = realpart* * self.i = imagpart* * * *x = Complex(3.0, -4.5)* I initially found it profoundly confusing that __init__( ) calls for 3 arguments, but you call Complex( ) with 2. Furthermore, why not call the initialization function after the class name as is done in other languages? Isn't that the simplest conceptually? Demonstrating with the above example: *class Complex:* * def Complex(realpart, imagpart):* * Complex.r = realpart* * Complex.i = imagpart* * * *x = Complex(3.0, -4.5)* * * Is there a good reason why classes cannot be defined that way? (Besides the problem of backward-compatibility)
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