Hi,
is it correct that an object cannot be re-instantiated within it's __init__
method?
I tried:
class Omega:
def Display(self):
print self
class Alpha(Omega):
def __init__(self):
self = Beta()
class Beta(Omega):
def __init__(self):
pass
objectus = Alpha()
objectus.Display()
which prints
<__main__.Alpha instance at 0x54d50>
Background: I need to create a new object upon instantiation when a database
query returns no records. The rest of the program should just use the new
object.
Is there any way to achieve this? I can always place the equivalent of 'self =
Beta()' in the Display() function:
def Display(self):
if self.not_found:
self = Beta()
self.Display()
return
print self
but this does not look very elegant.
Thanks,
Jan
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