father class name

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:23:44 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:

> Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> writes:
> 
>> By contrast, in the first part of the *expression*
>> `haha(object).theprint()`, you passed an argument (namely, `object`).
>> Since __init__() wasn't expecting any arguments whatsoever, you
>> therefore got an error.
> 
> Why is everyone talking about the initialiser, ‘__init__’?
> 
> When:
> 
>> >>>> haha(object).theprint()
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> > TypeError: object.__new__() takes no parameters
> 
> The error is talking about the constructor, ‘__new__’.


Good point.

I think we do a disservice to newbies when we (inadvertently) discourage 
them from reading the tracebacks generated by an error. The traceback 
clearly talks about a __new__ method.

I don't believe that talking about the constructor __new__ is so 
complicated that we should ignore the actual error and go of on a wild-
goose chase about the initialiser __init__, especially since adding an 
__init__ method to the class *won't solve the problem*.

Sorry Chris, I think you dropped the ball on this one and gave an overtly 
misleading answer :-(



-- 
Steven