Gary Herron <gher...@digipen.edu> writes: > The __init__ method is the constructor for instances of a class. It > is not required, but the situations in which a constructor is not > needed are few and unusual.
That's needlessly confusing: ‘__init__’ is not a constructor because it does not construct the instance. The ‘__new__’ method is the constructor for a class (and returns the new instance). The ‘__init__’ method requests the already-constructed instance to initialise itself (and returns None). -- \ “I still have my Christmas Tree. I looked at it today. Sure | `\ enough, I couldn't see any forests.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
