I split up my class constructor by letting it call multiple functions, like this:
class Wizard:
def __init__(self, argv):
self.parse_arguments(argv)
self.wave_wand() # declaration omitted
def parse_arguments(self, argv):
if self.has_correct_argument_count(argv):
self.name = argv[0]
self.magic_ability = argv[1]
else:
raise InvalidArgumentsException() # declaration omitted
# ... irrelevant functions omitted
While my interpreter happily runs my code, Pylint has a complaint:
Instance attribute attribute_name defined outside __init__
A cursory Google search is currently fruitless. Keeping all constructor logic in __init__
seems unorganized, and turning off the Pylint warning also seems hack-ish.
What is a/the Pythonic way to resolve this problem?