__init__() not called automatically

[John Abel]

bruno modulix wrote:

>Paul McNett wrote:
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>>Sriek wrote:
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>>>Similarly, why do we have to explicitly use the 'self' keyword
>>>everytime?
>>>This is closer to a wart, IMO, 
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Here's one of the shorter threads discussing 'self'.  I remember one 
looooong running thread, but can't seem to find it, at the minute

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f28dea8d63ac44/a0c80d8b1c92101c?q=python++self+implicit&rnum=1&hl=en#a0c80d8b1c92101c

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