def __init__ question in a class definition

[M.E.Farmer]

Steve Holden wrote:
> M.E.Farmer wrote:
>
> >>Jeffrey Borkent
> >>Systems Specialist
> >>Information Technology Services
> >
> >
> > With that kind of credentials, and the fact that you claim you are
a
> > system specialists....
> > I don't know you have me worried already.
> > I guess for you I just say RTFM.
> > If you think that is harsh then don't ask a 2nd grade question yet
> > claim/pretend to be some sorta system specialists.
>
> Hey, ease up, this is comp.lang.python, remember.
>
> > You tried searching the archives first I am sure.
> > Go here  http://www.python.org and *read*, come back when you are
> > really stuck.
> > M.E.Farmer
> > P.S. YES the __ matter, they identify special methods ! __init__ is
the
> > class CONSTRUCTOR.
> >
> Next time, could we try exchanging the body of the message and the
PS?
> That way you could have omitted the PS when you got half way through
it
> and realised you were just wasting your time and everyone else's ...
>
> got-out-the-wrong-side-of-bed-ly y'rs  - steve
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steve,
I stand by what I said.
Teach a man to fish feed him for a lifetime.
Re-read it, memorize it, and keep it near.
I read comp.lang.py for 3 years before I posted anything, and then i
posted an ANSWER!
I don't go around asking dirt simple questions that would be solved
with a quick read of the docs, usenet archives , Google, books that
have been written about Python,etc.... He should have been *reading*
not *posting*.
I can not understand why you have a problem with me pointing out he
should read the documentation. Why do you think RTFM exist, for people
like that, they are a timesink. He can redeem himself if he just goes
and reads a little and comes back looking like he made some effort.
This guy has a 6 mile sig that says he ought to know better. Had he
come with a different sig *maybe* and a question that did not scream
'''HEY I WANT YOU TO ANSWER EVERYTHING FOR ME BECAUSE I CAN NOT EVEN
READ THE BASIC DOCUMENTATION ON MY OWN'''.

> Next time, could we try exchanging the body of the message and the
PS?
> That way you could have omitted the PS when you got half way through
it
> and realised you were just wasting your time and everyone else's ...

I tell him where he is wrong first then I answer the question, sounds
like *YOU* ....Now I have your attention.
What do you think that post was meant to do? Snap him off at the root?
Make him cry? Maybe it was to nudge him to read the docs, so he can
*learn* on his own.
Next time you could just write my post for me! That way I can only
waste as much time as you deem acceptable! Now that I think about it,
if we just answer every question every poster has about any detail of
Python, then we can all sing along and hold hands, who needs to write
documentation or even books about Python look at all the time we will
save...

> got-out-the-wrong-side-of-bed-ly y'rs  - steve
Which-side is-the wrong-side-ly yr's - M.E.Farmer