__init__ explanation please

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

-On [20080113 13:36], Fredrik Lundh (fredrik at pythonware.com) wrote:
>given that they do different things, I'm not sure it's that helpful to 
>describe them *both* as constructors.

I am still behind in my learning. ;)

To restate it more correctly: __init__ is akin to a constructor.

I am not entirely sure I fully understand __new__'s semantics though. The
first read-through of http://docs.python.org/ref/customization.html makes it
sound very similar to a call like: var = Object(arguments=...)

I must not be understanding something and __new__'s documentation there is not
that clear to me, to be honest.

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