On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Rob Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > In between an object's creation and call to __init__, where are the __init__ > arguments stored? Is there a class dictionary that init uses to initialize > the instance? I tried printing Class.__init__, but they aren't in there.
No, there is no class dictionary like this. The arguments are stored as ordinary function call parameters. This message and the followup give a pretty good overview of what happens when you create a new class instance: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-November/349806.html The implementation of this is in the __call__() method of the metaclass of the class being created. Normally this is 'type'. If you want the gory details, the implementation of type.__call__() is in the type_call() function of typeobject.c. http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Objects/typeobject.c?rev=66043&view=auto > The reason I ask is that I was trying to track down a bug where it looked > like an argument was being mis-passed and I wanted to use pdb to see how it > was handled pre- and post-init. Show us the code...it's unlikely that this is a problem with the interpreter. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
