Class design issues: multiple constructors

[Greg Brunet]

Hi Miki:

> I see two ways:
> 1. Module (not class) methods: db = opendb(..), db = createdb(...)
> 2. Passing keyword arguments.
>     def __init__(selfk, filename, **kw):
>         if kw.has_key(create):
>             ....
>
> I vote for the former.


Thanks for the response.  I lie the first also - what function is being
called is more clear than option 2 which would require extra tests
(depending on how many __init__ variations there are).  If I can
understand the staticmethod stuff that Alex mentioned in his message, I
may try that path , since I'd like to have the methods actually in the
class definition, but defining them in the module itself is definitely a
good option.  Thanks,


-- 
Greg