The __init__ method

In Exercise 72 – creating a Pet class, you used the Pet class to create a Pet object called chubbles in the following manner:

chubbles = Pet()

Here, you’ll explore more about what happens when you create objects from a class in this manner.

Python has a special method called __init__, which is called when you initialize an object from one of our class templates. For example, building on the previous exercise, suppose you wanted to specify the height of a pet. You would add an __init__ method as follows:

class Pet:
    """
    A class to capture useful information regarding my pets, just in case
    I lose track of them.
    """
    def __init__(self, height):
        self.height = height
    
    is_human = False
   ...