__init__ explanation please

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

-On [20080113 01:41], Erik Lind (elind at spamcop.net) wrote:
>I'm new to Python, and OOP. I've read most of Mark Lutz's book and more 
>online and can write simple modules, but I still don't get when __init__ 
>needs to be used as opposed to creating a class instance by assignment.

I personally tend to see __init__ or __new__ as equivalent to what other
languages call a constructor.

(And I am sure some people might disagree with that. ;))

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