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Foo.__new__ is what species of method?

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Howdy all,

The Python reference says of a class ‘__new__’ method::

    object.__new__(cls[, ...])

    Called to create a new instance of class cls. __new__() is a static
    method (special-cased so you need not declare it as such) that takes
    the class of which an instance was requested as its first argument.

    <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__new__>

But a “static method” is described, elsewhere in the documentation
<URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#staticmethod>, as
“A static method does not receive an implicit first argument”.

What the ‘__new__’ documentation describes would match a “class method”
<URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#classmethod>
“A class method receives the class as implicit first argument”.

I suspect this a bug in the reference documentation for ‘__new__’, and
it should instead say “__new__ is a class method …”. Am I wrong?

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Ben Finney

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Foo.__new__ is what species of method? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-07-14 14:45 +1000
  Re: Foo.__new__ is what species of method? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-07-14 14:54 +1000
    Re: Foo.__new__ is what species of method? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-07-14 15:17 +1000
    Re: Foo.__new__ is what species of method? Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2015-07-14 08:26 +0200

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