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  Re: __init__ is the initialiser Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-02-01 13:38 +1100

#65167 — Re: __init__ is the initialiser

Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> writes:

> User classes lacking .__init__ usually inherit it from something other
> than object. So objects are constructed by first calling .__new__ and
> then passing the result to .__init__. The Python 3 doc should say so.

That matches my understanding, and I agree the docs should (somehow) say
that clearly.

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