Howdy all, The Python reference says of a class ‘__new__’ method::
object.__new__(cls[, ...]) Called to create a new instance of class cls. __new__() is a static method (special-cased so you need not declare it as such) that takes the class of which an instance was requested as its first argument. <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__new__> But a “static method” is described, elsewhere in the documentation <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#staticmethod>, as “A static method does not receive an implicit first argument”. What the ‘__new__’ documentation describes would match a “class method” <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#classmethod> “A class method receives the class as implicit first argument”. I suspect this a bug in the reference documentation for ‘__new__’, and it should instead say “__new__ is a class method …”. Am I wrong? -- \ “Cooles & Heates: If you want just condition of warm in your | `\ room, please control yourself.” —air conditioner instructions, | _o__) Japan | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list