On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > My first response was going to be "Well, you can always add another > layer of indirection to try to solve your problem", but then I went > and looked up builders on Wikipedia. Now I'm confused. What can you do > with a builder that you can't do with a constructor?
In Java you have to write a separate constructor for every conceivable combination of arguments. If there are a lot of optional arguments, that's an exponentially large number of constructors. The builder pattern provides a solution to that problem. In Python you just have one initializer with defaults for the optional arguments, so it's not an issue. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
