what is the difference between commenting and uncommenting the __init__ method in this class?
Dave Angel
davea at davea.name
Mon Jan 28 21:19:50 EST 2013
On 01/28/2013 09:09 PM, iMath wrote:
> what is the difference between commenting and uncommenting the __init__ method in this class?
>
>
> class CounterList(list):
> counter = 0
>
> ## def __init__(self, *args):
> ## super(CounterList, self).__init__(*args)
>
> def __getitem__(self, index):
>
> self.__class__.counter += 1
> return super(CounterList, self).__getitem__(index)
>
If you don't call the super-class' __init__() method, then the list
won't take anyparameters. So the list will be empty,
--
DaveA
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