I'm still working on my DateTime class from last week... Why does __init__ not get called?
The docs at http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/ref/customization.html read "If __new__() returns an instance of cls, then the new instance's __init__() method will be invoked" and as far as I can tell cls is very much an instance of DateTime ************ import datetime _datetime = datetime.datetime class DateTime(_datetime): """ Identical to builtin datetime.datetime, except it accepts invalid dates and times as input. """ _valid = True __dict__ = _datetime.__dict__ def __init__(self, year, month, day, *args, **kw): print "init called" _valid = False self.year = year self.month = month self.day = day self.args = args self.kw = kw def throwError(): raise ValueError, 'Invalid Date' for method in _datetime.__dict__.keys(): if method!='__doc__': setattr(self, method, throwError) def __new__(cls, year, month, day, *args, **kw): print "new called" try: return _datetime.__new__(cls, year, month, day, *args, **kw) except ValueError: return cls ************* -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
