"Vincent Davis" <[email protected]> wrote
class BString(XString):
""" Biological string """
_bstring_constructor = biostrings.BString
@classmethod
def new(cls, x):
""" :param x: a (biological) string """
res = cls(cls._bstring_constructor(conversion.py2ri(x)))
_setExtractDelegators(res)
return res
OK, I see what they are doing but as far as I can tell this could be
put in a __new__ method just as easily which would retain the
usual instantiation style.
Any gurus out there able to explain why they have used an
explicit new() class method rather than __new__()?
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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