__init__ is the initialiser
Ben Finney
ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Fri Jan 31 21:10:21 EST 2014
Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> writes:
> On 01/31/2014 03:47 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > I suggest:
> >
> > Called automatically by the constructor “__new__” during
> > instance creation, to initialise the new instance.
>
> But __new__ does not call __init__, type does [1].
My apologies, you're right and that's made clear at
<URL:file:///usr/share/doc/python3.3/html/reference/datamodel.html#object.__new__>.
Try:
object.__init__(self[, …])
Called automatically after the constructor “__new__”, during
instance creation, to initialise the new instance.
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