Module imports during object instantiation

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2007-08-14, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at researchut.com> wrote:
> Neil Cerutti wrote:
>
>> If you want an import inside an __init__ to run, you must call
>> the __init__ function that contains it.
>
> Doesn't __init__ get called automatically ?

It gets called automatically when you construct an instance of
the class in which it's defined.

> I thought __init__ was required to be called explicitly only
> when you were doing inheritance and wanted to pass separate
> values to the base class.

You don't have to call it explicitly to get it to run.

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