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Re: Why has __new__ been implemented as a static method?

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From Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> If it were a class method, you would call it by MyBaseClass.__new__() 
> rather than explicitly providing the cls argument.

But that wouldn't be any good, because the base __new__
needs to receive the actual class being instantiated,
not the class that the __new__ method belongs to.

-- 
Greg

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Why has __new__ been implemented as a static method? Jurko Gospodnetić <jurko.gospodnetic@pke.hr> - 2014-05-03 12:37 +0200
  Re: Why has __new__ been implemented as a static method? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-03 15:12 +0000
    Re: Why has __new__ been implemented as a static method? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-05-04 11:21 +1200
      Re: Why has __new__ been implemented as a static method? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-04 03:37 +0000
        Re: Why has __new__ been implemented as a static method? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-05-04 20:03 +1200
          Re: Why has __new__ been implemented as a static method? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-04 14:16 +0000
            Re: Why has __new__ been implemented as a static method? Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2014-05-04 17:24 +0100
            Re: Why has __new__ been implemented as a static method? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-05-04 11:05 -0600

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