dynamic

[James Carroll]

Oh, I see.   Yeah, having the code look like you're instantiating one
class, but really getting a different one is really horrible.  Sorry I
didn't catch on to the subtlety.  I'm always complaining about code
that looks like it does one thing, but really does another.

-Jim

On 15 Jun 2005 22:24:28 -0700, Michele Simionato
<michele.simionato at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think using __new__ when a plain old factory method would
> work is horrible. But I am not saying that there no use cases for
> __new__. I used it once, when I wanted a class working
> for the final user as a factory function. I just wrote the class in
> lower case and gave it a custom __new__ method.
> 
>            Michele Simionato
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