OOP / language design question

[Duncan Booth]

bruno at modulix wrote:

> It's *already* split : __new__ construct the object, __init__
> initialize it. 
> 
>> That's why I would go for the 2-phase construction:
> 
> But that's already what you have.

Very good point.

>> after the first phase 
>> you have an object which is fully initialised, just not yet 
>> used/connected/running. For example httplib.HTTPConnection does this:
>> you construct the object with a host and port, but the actual
>> connection is triggered by a separate object.
> 
> If you look at file objects, they do try and open the file at init
> time. Is a net or db connection that different ?

Well, yes, since the whole point is that we are discussing overriding
methods and I bet you haven't subclassed Python file objects recently.

For network or database connections you do want to supply your own
handlers for things like authentication.