How to create a class instance without calling initializer?

Question

Is there any way to avoid calling __init__ on a class while initializing it, such as from a class method?

I am trying to create a case and punctuation i

Answer 1

Pass another argument to the constructor, like so:

def __init__(self, string, simple = None):
    if simple is None:
        self.__string = tuple(string.split())
        self.__simple = tuple(self.__simple())
    else:
        self.__string = string
        self.__simple = simple

You can then call it like this:

def __getitem__(self, key):
    assert isinstance(key, slice)
    return String(self.__string[key], self.__simple[key])

Also, I'm not sure it's allowed to name both the field and the method __simple. If only for readability, you should change that.