"could ildg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > __new__() is intended mainly to allow subclasses of immutable types > (like int, str, or tuple) to customize instance creation.
Exactly. It is an anwer to the conundrum: How do you give an immutable object its unchangeable value. It is much like how to move an unmovable object to its permanent position ;-). TJR -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
