OOP - how to abort an __init__ when the initialisation code fails ?

[R.Wieser]

Chris,

> "Control flow" is anything that changes the order that your code runs.

My apologies, I should have said "a control flow mechanism" /in this 
context/ (though I assumed that as implicite, as I quoted the text from the 
OP).

Case in point, the __init__ code (of a class object) can result in an 
exception, and I need to deal with it.  But I should /not/ wrap whole blocks 
of code into a "try ... except" construction - which definitily is what will 
happen when I want to catch, in the calling program, exceptions thrown by 
the object while its initialising.

So, I was wondering if the "a control flow mechanism" reference was aimed at 
something that would alleviate the above "you must, but you shouldn't" 
conundrum.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser