no return values for __init__ ??

[Helge Hess]

Hi there,

recently I was heavily wondering why __init__ does not allow return
values ! Is there any special reason not to do this ?

For example consider this
  
  C_singleton = None
  
  class C:
    def __init__(self):
      if C_singleton is None:
        c_singleton = self
      return C_singleton

  c1 = C()
  c2 = C()
  'if c1 is c2' will be true

It took me 5 minutes to change the Python interpreter to allow return
values, I'm just wondering why this wasn't implemented in the first
place ?!!

Hm,
  Helge
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