Multiple initialization methods?

[Steven Bethard]

alex wrote:
> I am thinking of something like this:
> 
>   def __init__(self, par1, par2):
>     self.init(par1, par2);
> 
>   def __init__(self, par1):
>     self.init(par1, None)
> 
>   def init(self, par1, par2):
>      ...
>      ...
> 
> So if the call is with one parameter only the second class is executed
> (calling the 'init' method with the second parameter set to 'None' or
> whatever. But this example does not work. 

Why don't you just write this as:

def __init__(self, par1, par2=None):
     self.init(par1, par2)

STeVe