How to make any method act as __init__ in Python?

Question

When I run something like:

class Compliment():
   def __init__(self):
      self.Hello = "HI"
   def Bye(self):
      self.bye = "BYE"
print(Compliment().Hello)
print(Compliment().bye)

I get:`

AttributeError: 'Compliment' object has no attribute 'bye'
HI

But I want to create attributes in others methods, and make the method "init" useless for this purpose, Is this possible? If it is, how could I do something like that?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65894267/how-to-make-any-method-act-as-init-in-python

Answer 1

You can create attributes anywhere you wish. The error with your code is that you did not invoke method Bye before you tried to print an attribute that is created only within that method. Instead, try

prop = Compliment()
print(prop.Hello)
prop.Bye()
print(prop.bye)

In answer to your direct question: no, you cannot make __init__ useless for creating attributes. You do not have to use it that way, but you cannot disable it: __init__ is a language-defined method.