PEP 235: role of PyType_GenericNew()

[Ralf Juengling]

Hi,

I'm wondering whether the current implementation of PyType_GenericNew
does, what it's supposed to do.
In typeobject.c it reads:

PyObject *
PyType_GenericNew(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
{
	return type->tp_alloc(type, 0);
}


Thus, only the allocator of the passed type is called.
Shouldn't the base classes allocators be called as well?

Cheers,
Ralf