initializing mutable class attributes

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.2624.1093889688.5135.python-list at python.org>,
Shalabh Chaturvedi  <shalabh at cafepy.com> wrote:
>
>In Python you either have an __init__ or you don't. There is no 'default 
>constructor' - or if there is, it does nothing. 

Actually, that's not quite true.  Python does indeed have a default
constructor that returns the object.  This isn't particularly visible
from classic classes because there's no way to get access to a
constructor.  New-style classes make the constructor available through
__new__().  __init__() is an initializer.
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