__init__ like in java

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <91vosi$19h$1 at reader1.imaginet.fr>,
Gilles Lenfant <glenfant at equod.com.nospam> wrote:
>
>Is there an *elegant pythonic*  way to have several constructors for one
>class ?

What do you mean?  The standard way of handling this in Python is to use
default arguments:

class foo:
    __init__(self, bar=None, baz=None):
        if bar:
            ...
        if baz:
            ...
        ...

Now you can create an instance of foo() using zero, one, or two
arguments.
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