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Python: Reassigning Object to Class with No Constructor Does Not Overwrite Dictionary Field

I’m using Python 3.9.1 and am confused how Python’s default constructor works. I have the below class with a Dictionary field and no Constructor. When I populate its Dictionary and then reassign my object to a new instance, the dictionary retains its existing value (this also happens for List fields): However, when I add a constructor, it works as expected:

more than one constructor in a python class

I come from the Java programming language and I know that you can have more than one constructor there. My question now is: is that also possible in Python? My Problem: I have a class, where I have my help functions for my commands (implemented with click). These commands are not in the history class. Now my commands sometimes only

Init super with existing instance?

Suppose I have: How do I correctly initialize the super class with the output of the super class method rather than init? My OOP background is in C++ and I am continually getting into these scenarios due to the ability to overload constructors in C++, so a workaround for this would be awesome. Answer @shx2’s answer works but wastefully/awkwardly creates

ValueError: DataFrame constructor not properly called

I am trying to create a dataframe with Python, which works fine with the following command: but, when I try to get the data from a variable instead of hard-coding it into the data argument; eg. : I expect this is the same and it should work? But I get: Answer Reason for the error: It seems a string representation

Automatically-generated Python constructor

I have countless Python classes from various projects from SQLAlchemy (and a couple from Pygame as well), and I recently noticed a pattern in many of them: their constructors always went something like this: … whereby the only thing the constructor did was to transfer a set of positional arguments into an exactly identically named set of data members, performing

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