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Python (and Python C API): new versus init
I’m at college just now and the lecturer was using the terms constructors and initializers interchangeably. I’m pretty sure that this is wrong though.
I’ve tried googling the answer but not found the answer I’m looking for.
In most OO languages, they are the same step, so he’s not wrong for things like java, c++, etc. In python they are done in two steps:
__new__is the constructor;__init__is the initializer.Here is another answer that goes into more detail about the differences between them.