Heiko Wundram wrote: > Because sometimes you don't want to call the base classes constructors? Sounds strange to me at the moment, but I'll try to adjust to this thought.
> Python zen says: "Better explicit than implicit," and in this case it hits > the nail on the head. Better to see right away what your code does (the > explicit call to the base class), than to have to work around calling a bases > constructor if you don't want to call it. Thanks, that explains it somehow - at least, it's consistent with explicit "self". I think I'll need some shift in thinking after C++. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
