Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature

[Michael Selik]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 4:26 AM Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 8:02:14 AM UTC+12, Ben Finney wrote:
> > (Note that ‘__init__’ is not a constructor, because it operates on the
> > *already constructed* instance, and does not return anything.
>
> Believe it or not, that *is* what “constructor” means in every OO
> language. Technically it should be called the “initializer”, but
> “constructor” is the accepted term for the special method that is called to
> initialize a newly-allocated class instance.
>

Perhaps a Pythonista may have different jargon? Since we have two different
words (initializer, constructor), we may as well give them different
meanings so that they are maximally useful in conversation.