On Tue, Apr 26, 2016, at 03:34, Ben Finney wrote: > 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 __new__ method is the *allocator*. "constructor" is used in many languages to name a method that initializes an object once it already "exists". Saying you can't call it that in Python is needlessly confusing. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
