On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor at python.org> wrote: > new() that sets up the memory then calls init(). So init is > only used to initialise the object after it has been > constructed. __new__ and __init__ are called by the metaclass __call__ method. __init_ is called if __new__ returns an instance of the class.