new module and class/type unification.

[Fredrik Stenberg]

Morning.. its 04:26 localtime so my intellect is not on top.
Anyway.. I'm playing with the class/type unification and i don't
understand why the following code doesn't work (2.2)

import new
new.instance(str,None)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: instance() argument 1 must be class, not type


Is this is a bug? or am i missing the big picture
in type/class unification and the new-module?

/fredriks alias princeps...