Overwriting 'self' in constructor?

[Costas Malamas]

I apologize if this is a newbie question, but I RTFM'ed to no avail:

I am trying to extend a class that produces an object in two steps: the
constructor produces a factory object and then there is a method that
returns the object I really want, i.e.: A.make().  Now, I want to extend
A, but I'd like to get the second type of object from the constructor.
Python (1.52, 1.6, Win32) won't let me do this:

class B(A):
   def __init__(self):
      A.__init__(self)
      self = A.make(self)

The product of this is _always_ 'self' as defined by A.__init__()  Why?
Can I/Should I work around it?

Thanks in advance,

Costas



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