Hello everyone! Can someone do without the __init__ method in OOP (python)? I have seen some codes without it.

Question

Python OOP

Answer 1

When you don't need your objects to come with any initial data, you don't have to write init.

You can write into the object dynamically after you created it.

class C:
pass

c = C()
c.x = 5

But you'll quickly see that init makes sense in most cases.

If you create a hundred instances, you'd have to write in the data by hand for each and every one of them.

Much more convenient if you can just write:

c = C('Fritz', 52, 'single')

Answer 2

Thanks. Grateful!

Answer 3

if you didn't need to declare any initial attributes to create a class instance, then leaving the __init__ dunder would be fine.