__init__ return value

[Bob Gailer]

At 12:35 PM 9/24/2003, Skip Montanaro wrote:


>     Facundo> The question is about the last two lines: When you call
>     Facundo> self.__init__(...), doesn't it return a value that you should
>     Facundo> return too?
>
>No, __init__ method return values are always ignored.

Oh?

 >>> class A:
...     def __init__(self):
...             return 'asdf'
...
 >>> A()
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: __init__() should return None


Bob Gailer
bgailer at alum.rpi.edu
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