Two minor questions on Class

[Peter Otten]

joy99 wrote:

> class Person(object):
>         def _init_(self,name,age):
>                 self.name=name
>                 self.age=age
> 
> as i wrote the code using IDLE on WinXP SP2, with Python2.6.5, I am
> getting the following error:
> 
> >>> p=Person('Subha',40)
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#120>", line 1, in <module>
>     p=Person('Subha',40)
> TypeError: object.__new__() takes no parameters
> 
> My question is, why the error is coming? Any problem in writing it?

The so-called special methods in Python start with two underscores and end 
with two underscores, i. e. the initializer is called

__init__

not

_init_

> If any one can help, I would be grateful. As I pasted the code from
> GUI to notepad, there may be slight indentation problem, sorry for the
> same.
 
It looks fine here.

Peter