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Confusing statement about constructors in Python in Chapter 5.3 #84

Open signalpillar opened 9 years ago

signalpillar commented 9 years ago

Chapter 5.3 contains the following confusing statement.

Python classes do have something similar to a constructor: the init method.

Probably we should mention \__new__ which really creates an instance of the class.