new style classes and IDLE "grump"

Paul M p.magwene at snet.net
Wed Mar 27 20:30:59 EST 2002


In Python 2.2 when invoking the __init__ method of a new style (i.e. derived
from object) class in IDLE, the calling "signature" doesn't show up like it
does when instantiating a classic class object.

For example, try the following in IDLE:




This isn't really a bug, but a somewhat annoying feature of new classes in
the context of the IDLE interpretter.




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