On Wednesday April 28 2010 13:04:30 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:53:06 pm Walter Wefft wrote: > > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > And for guru-level mastery, replace to call to dict.__init__ with > > > ... > > > > nothing at all, because dict.__init__ doesn't do anything. > > [...] > > > Behaviour is different depending on whether you call the superclass > > __init__ or not. > > > > ? > > Fascinating... it seems that you are correct. Just goes to show, you can > be programming in Python for well over a decade and still learn > something new.
You probably thought of tuple, where __init__ really does nothing. Tuple instances are created by __new__. Eike. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
