Consider this:
def blackhole(*args, **kwds): pass
The fact that it accept args that it ignores could be considered
misleading or even a bug. Now modify it to do something useful, like
return a new, naked, immutable object that is the same for every call
except for identity, and which still totally ignores the args as
irrelavant. Call it object.__new__. It is just as misleading, if not
more so.
In 3.x, the mistake has been fixed.
>>> object(1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#9>", line 1, in <module>
object(1)
TypeError: object.__new__() takes no parameters
Terry Jan Reedy
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