On 04/26/2016 06:49 AM, Random832 wrote:
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.
Agreed. For a newbie asking about __init__, I'll stick with my original
answer (that it's the constructor), and suggest ignoring the overly
pedantic (and confusing) response to the contrary.
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