What arguments are passed to the __new__ method ?

[Rob Gaddi]

Peter Pearson wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 18:24:12 +0100, ast wrote:
>>
>> It's not clear to me what arguments are passed to the
>> __new__ method. Here is a piece of code:
>>
>>
>> class Premiere:
>>
>>     def __new__(cls, price):
>>          return object.__new__(cls)
>>
>>     def __init__(self, price):
>>             pass
> [snip]
>
> Of course, maybe you don't need to define a __new__ method at all.
> Personally, I find that __init__ suffices for my simple needs.
>

I tend to need __init__ on about half of the classes I write.  I think
I've needed __new__ all of twice in the years I've been writing Python.

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