multiple constructor __init__

[Emmanuel Mayssat]

Yes, exactly like range ....
http://coverage.livinglogic.de/Demo/classes/Range.py.html
see handleargs function. Well that's short, but that's still too much code
for what I want to do ;-)


On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> On 2/2/2012 8:09 PM, Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I would like to instantiate my class as follow
>>
>>
>> QObject(<param1>, <parent>)
>> QObject(<parent>)
>>
>> an example would be
>> http://www.riverbankcomputing.**co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/**qmenu.html<http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qmenu.html>
>>
>> How can I do this without have to specify parent=<parent> in the second
>> version
>> (I always need to supply the parent parameter, but I would like to
>> supply it last)
>>
>
> The same way range(stop) versus range(start,stop) works.
> But I really recommend against that api.
> It makes both doc and code messy.
> You need a really good reason to not use the obvious
> def __init__(self, parent, param=default):...
>
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