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On 20/10/2013 08:09, Peter Cacioppi wrote:
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> Personally, I find the ability of Python to subclass without overriding the constructor very elegant.
>

__new__ is the constructor which to my knowledge you've not mentioned, 
__init__ is the initialiser as mentioned by Ben Finney.

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