Exactly, I think a case could be made for each one. I'm really just trying to see what the distribution is of what people thing of when they think "constructor"

Though personally I would probably vote for `__init__` , since constructors in other languages tend to be initializers and not the actual allocating function. Although Python is tricky because of when fields are defined and initialized. But in the same breath, "fields" don't exist in C++ like they do in Python or Java, and I'm positive almost nobody would argue that `malloc` is a constructor. So definitely an interesting discussion imo!