On 01/31/2014 03:43 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
On 1/31/14 6:05 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Ned Batchelder writes:
I'm not hoping to change any official terminology. I just think that calling
__init__ anything other than a constructor
is confusing pedantry. It is a constructor, and Python constructors work
differently than those in C++ and Java.
And I would say the opposite. __init__ is not creating anything, which is what I think of when speaking of a
constructor. I'd be willing to yield the point that Python has a pair of methods that make up the constructor (an
allocator and an initializer), but I found calling __init__ the constructor very confusing.
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