TypeError: 'kwarg' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

[Ian Kelly]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 6:55 AM, roro codeath <rorocodeath at gmail.com> wrote:
> How to implement it in my class?
>
> class Str(str):
>     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
>         pass
>
> Str('smth', kwarg='a')

The error is coming from the __new__ method. Because str is an
immutable type, you should override the __new__ method, not __init__.
Example:

class Str(str):
    def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
        return super().__new__(cls, args[0])

>>> Str('smth', kwarg='a')
'smth'