Python assignment to self in constructor does not make object the same

Question

I am making a constructor in Python. When called with an existing object as its input, it should set the \"new\" object to that same object. Here is a 10 line demonstratio

Answer 1

__init__ is an initializer, not a constructor. You would have to mess around with __new__ to do what you want, and it's probably not a good idea to go there.

Try

a = b = A(1)

instead.