Recursive constructors?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Roy Smith <roy at popmail.med.nyu.edu> wrote:
> Is it legal for a constructor function to call itself recursively?  I.e.:
> 
> class foo:
>    def __init__(self, x):
>       if (whatever):
>          self.bar = foo(y)

why not just try it? ;-)

(hint: the class statement will finish before
you get around to actually create an in-
stance of the class, and at that time, 'foo'
is already in the GLOBAL namespace).

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