new does not call init as described in descrintro.html (WAS: Can new prevent init from being called?)

Wed Feb 16 01:50:12 EST 2005

Aahz wrote:
> In article <pvWdnUJ3hIROBo_fRVn-jw at comcast.com>,
> Steven Bethard  <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Yeah, I saw the same thing in playing around with this.  Don't know
>>what to make of it.  I wonder if we should file a documentation bug?  I
>>can't find __new__ explained anywhere in the Language Reference.  Can
>>documentation bugs be filed for descrintro.html?
> 
> Absolutely!  And they're especially welcome if they contain suggested
> replacement text.

Cool.  I added a documentation bug:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1123716&group_id=5470&atid=105470

Steve

__new__ does not call __init__ as described in descrintro.html (WAS: Can __new__ prevent __init__ from being called?)

new does not call init as described in descrintro.html (WAS: Can new prevent init from being called?)