[Python-Dev] Breaking calls to object.__init__/__new__

[Greg Ewing]

Blake Ross wrote:
> C++ ensures that virtual bases
> are only constructed once,

As far as I remember, C++ ensures this by not calling
the base constructors automatically at all, leaving
you to explicitly call the constructors of all the
virtual bases that you inherit.

You could adopt the same solution in Python - have
methods called init_xxx in each class Xxx, and call
them all from the __init__ method of the most-derived
class.

--
Greg