Pronouncing '__init__'

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1024141520.26347.python-list at python.org>,
holger krekel  <pyth at devel.trillke.net> wrote:
>Oren Tirosh wrote:
>>
>> There has been a thread about this issue in the past. Below are some of the
>> proposals people made.  I'd like to have an informal vote - how do *you*
>> say Python's magic names when talking with other Pythoneers?
>
>for oral language:
>
>    init constructor
>
>and if the context allows
>
>    init
>
>for written languange __init__
>
>Isn't it obvious? :-)

Yup.  Except that you're wrong: __init__ isn't a constructor, it's an
initializer.  __new__ is a constructor.  ;-)  So I just refer to the
"init method" so nobody gets the wrong idea.
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