On 01/31/2014 03:47 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
I would prefer it to be clear that “__init__” is called automatically, *during* the constructor's operation. So, instead of: Called when the instance is created. I suggest: Called automatically by the constructor “__new__” during instance creation, to initialise the new instance.
But __new__ does not call __init__, type does [1]. -- ~Ethan~ [1] And I seem to think pickle does, too, but I'm not sure. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list