James Stroud wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm running 2.3.4 > > I was reading the documentation for classes & types > http://www.python.org/2.2.3/descrintro.html > And stumbled on this paragraph: > > """ > __new__ must return an object. There's nothing that requires that it return a > new object that is an instance of its class argument, although that is the > convention. If you return an existing object, the constructor call will still > call its __init__ method. If you return an object of a different class, its > __init__ method will be called. > """
Any reason why you're looking at 2.2 documentation when you're running 2.3? Anyway, the current docs corrected this mistake[1] """ If __new__() returns an instance of cls, then the new instance's __init__() method will be invoked like "__init__(self[, ...])", where self is the new instance and the remaining arguments are the same as were passed to __new__(). If __new__() does not return an instance of cls, then the new instance's __init__() method will not be invoked. """ [1]http://docs.python.org/ref/customization.html STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
