Can "self" crush itself?

[Aahz]

In article <7ace3de0-4588-4b7d-9848-d97298717597 at z41g2000yqz.googlegroups.com>,
n00m  <n00m at narod.ru> wrote:
>> Or just raise an exception in __init__(),..
>
>Then we are forced to handle this exception outside of class code.

Absolutely!  That's the whole point.  If you can't construct the class,
you *should* raise an error.  The only other workable option is to leave
the target set to None, which is uglier because you don't track the
error.
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