On Apr 22, 3:36 am, "Steven W. Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I go to create an object I want to be able to decide whether the > object is valid or not in __init__, and if not, I want the constructor to > return something other than an object, (like maybe None). [...]
__init__ doesn't create an instance, it initializes it, i.e. does things like settings some attributes, etc. The method that creates instances is called __new__ (see http://docs.python.org/ref/customization.html). -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
