More __init__ methods

Tim Golden mail at timgolden.me.uk
Thu Nov 6 13:44:04 EST 2008


Mr.SpOOn wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote:
>> class A(object):
>>    def __init__(self, a, b, c):
>>        self.a = a
>>        # ...
>>
>>    @classmethod
>>    def from_string(cls, s):
>>        # ...
>>        return cls(a, b, c)
> 
> Thanks.
> I think it's time to study decorators.


While that's no bad thing, you don't really need to do
that simply to understand these examples: they're just
saying "do whatever you need to to make these method
class methods, not instance methods".

TJG



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