[Tutor] Class definition confusion

[Mark Lawrence]

On 15/02/2012 18:35, Hugo Arts wrote:
[snip]

> An __init__ might seem like it's special in some way, declaring
> attributes. But it's not, really, it's just another method that gets
> passed the object it is called on (that would be "self"). It's only
> special because it gets called when an object is created, so generally
> an object is initialized there and attributes are assigned (hence the
> name "init").'
>
> HTH,
> Hugo
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To the OP.

Note that __init__ is an initialiser and not a constructor which is 
__new__, see e.g. 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2008-April/061426.html

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.