__init__ is the initialiser

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Fri Jan 31 21:38:18 EST 2014


Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:

> User classes lacking .__init__ usually inherit it from something other
> than object. So objects are constructed by first calling .__new__ and
> then passing the result to .__init__. The Python 3 doc should say so.

That matches my understanding, and I agree the docs should (somehow) say
that clearly.

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