On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:18:44 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > What one is "in reality" calling is the '__new__' method of the Person > class. That function, in turn, is creating a new Person instance, and > calling the '__init__' method of the newly-created instance. Finally, > the '__new__' method returns that instance back to the caller.
But not if Person is an old-style class. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list