[Tutor] __init__() - is it required?

[Alan Gauld]

"bob gailer" <bgailer at gmail.com> wrote

>> No, init() is only for initialising the object instance.
>> If you have no local instance spwecific initialisation
>> you can leave it to the inherited init() aor have no init()
>> at all.
>
> Well I'd like to expand that a bit. There are cases where I create a 
> class attribute and update it each time an instance is created. O

Good point.
init() can legitimately do things other than initialising instance
variables, but conceptually those things are all part of initialising
an instance. Updating class variables is a good example of
such "other things".

Alan G.