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Author	barry
Recipients	barry, eric.smith, gvanrossum, ned.deily
Date	2018-05-16.21:12:55
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Message-id	<27DD04D4-035E-4C71-949A-816CE777DA3F@python.org>
In-reply-to	<1526503720.38.0.682650639539.issue33539@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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On May 16, 2018, at 16:48, Eric V. Smith <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: > Do you really want to add a __init__ to each of the 500 classes? Well, of course I do, but I’m weird like that. > That is, the base class could legitimately being doing something with the derived class fields, and you might want to move all of the logic in to a base class. Yeah, I can see the points. I think if these are use cases we want to support, maybe we should describe them in the documentation as justifications for the keyword arguments.

On May 16, 2018, at 16:48, Eric V. Smith <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

> Do you really want to add a __init__ to each of the 500 classes?

Well, of course *I* do, but I’m weird like that.

> That is, the base class could legitimately being doing something with the derived class fields, and you might want to move all of the logic in to a base class.

Yeah, I can see the points.  I think if these are use cases we want to support, maybe we should describe them in the documentation as justifications for the keyword arguments.

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