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Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:22:22 -0400
From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
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On 04/05/2013 10:49 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> Did you mean "constructor" rather than C T O R ? Perhaps your voice-to-
>> text software (if you are using such) misheard you.
>
> Side point: "ctor" is a common abbreviation for "constructor".
>
> ChrisA
>

But neither term applies to the __init__() method, which is an 
initializer.  The constructor is __new__()


-- 
DaveA