From: Hermann Schachner <hschachn@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:59:58 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Missing hint in documentation
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Missing hint in documentation

I did not realize that RequestHandler.initialize() is called before every single request.
For me, 'subclass initialization' suggest that this function were called only once for each subclass definition.
(Seems like I am not the only one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15199028/does-initialize-in-tornado-web-requesthandler-get-called-every-time-for-a-reques)
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diff --git a/tornado/web.py b/tornado/web.py
index 1cacd7c0a..c51d5f68a 100644
--- a/tornado/web.py
+++ b/tornado/web.py
@@ -183,8 +183,8 @@ class RequestHandler(object):
         self.initialize(**kwargs)
 
     def initialize(self):
-        """Hook for subclass initialization.
-
+        """Hook for subclass initialization. Called for each request.
+          
         A dictionary passed as the third argument of a url spec will be
         supplied as keyword arguments to initialize().