modifying __new__ of list subclass

[Ken Schutte]

Steven Bethard wrote:
> 
> The __new__ method is for immutable types.  So things like str and int 
> do their initialization in __new__.  But for regular mutable types, you 
> should do your initialization in __init__::
> 

I see... So, is there a use for __new__ in mutable types?   From my 
list-derirved class, it was obviously being called, but it's return 
value is totally ignored?

Thanks for the reply.