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Confuse-A-Constructor: When Class A's Constructor Returns Objects of Type B

Posted Saturday 02/22/2020 in Python

Table of Contents

Confuse-A-Constructor
What is the constructor?
Rewiring the constructor to do... weird stuff
A simple example class
Adding a __new__ method
When __new__ returns objects, not classes
Moving beyond argparse
Using __new__ in your patterns

Confuse-A-Constructor

Today, we are going to confuse a constructor.

What is the constructor?

One of the first concepts encountered in object-oriented programming is that of the constructor, the method that …

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