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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Why has __new__ been implemented as a static method?
Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 20:03:35 +1200
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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