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I'm learning the Python programming language and I've came across something I don't fully understand. In a method like: def method(self, blah): def __init__(?): .... .... What does ...

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While reading the code of OpenStack and I encountered this. A class named 'Service' inherits the base class 'object', and then in Service's __init__() method, object's __init__ is called. The related ...

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Okay. So I saw someone using this code, and I understand it, I so I'm going to use it. Is it necessary to have __init__? class A(object): def __init__(self): self.x = 'Hello' def ...

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Hey guys so I have done a lot of research into _init_() but still don't get it. From what I currently understand it must be used for all instances of a class to pass object args? I understand the use ...

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I am currently studying Python and I have seen in many source codes that uses init(self) but I do not know about it. I'm a newbie so please explain it easily.

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I started learning python (with no prior knowledge of it, not programming) few weeks ago and am stuck at Classes. Currently the "init" class method confuses me. What does it do, in fact? Here is an ...

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So, as a newbie in Python, I am trying to understand it with the use of some examples. I'd like to understand it better, so I have made this: class MyClass(object): i = 123 def hot(self): ...

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I'm a novice in python programming. I've been jumping from one resource to another to really grasp a low-level understanding of what __init__() is which normally appears at the beginning of a python ...

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So I understand how to use init when defining a class in Python. However, I am confused as to what to put inside the init function, or if I should use it at all. For example: Here I make the user ...

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My scenario I only have one class with two methods. In the first method I store values in a variable. In the second method I try to call these variables class UpdateTallysheet(Page): def ...

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I want two class. Class A with a default class attribute and class B (child class) who override this class attribute. But if A class attribute definition is changed by developper, i don't want to ...

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How does the quality of my code gets affected if I don't use __init__ method in python? A simple example would be appreciated.

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class Camera(object): def __init__(self, win, x=0.0, y=0.0, rot=0.0, zoom=1.0): self.win = win self.x = x self.y = y self.rot = rot self.zoom = zoom cam = ...

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Just like the answer,I want to dynamic Load the database in the choicefield, and i had do this queue = forms.ChoiceField(label=u'queue',choices=((x.que,x.disr) for x in Queue.objects.all())) but it ...

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While going through scapy source code (https://github.com/jwiegley/scapy), I came across the fact none of the Ether, IP, TCP, UDP or any other protocol classes contain any __init__ method, nor they ...