Hi,

is it correct that an object cannot be re-instantiated within it's __init__ method?

I tried:

class Omega:
    def Display(self):
        print self
        
class Alpha(Omega):
    def __init__(self):
        self = Beta()
        
class Beta(Omega):
    def __init__(self):
        pass
                
objectus = Alpha()
objectus.Display()

which prints

<__main__.Alpha instance at 0x54d50> 

Background: I need to create a new object upon instantiation when a database query returns n
o records. The rest of the program should just use the new object.

Is there any way to achieve this? I can always place the equivalent of 'self = Beta()' in th
e Display() function:

    def Display(self):
        if self.not_found:
            self = Beta()
            self.Display()
            return
        print self

 but this does not look very elegant.

Thanks,

Jan
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