Oh, I see. Yeah, having the code look like you're instantiating one class, but really getting a different one is really horrible. Sorry I didn't catch on to the subtlety. I'm always complaining about code that looks like it does one thing, but really does another.
-Jim On 15 Jun 2005 22:24:28 -0700, Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think using __new__ when a plain old factory method would > work is horrible. But I am not saying that there no use cases for > __new__. I used it once, when I wanted a class working > for the final user as a factory function. I just wrote the class in > lower case and gave it a custom __new__ method. > > Michele Simionato > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
