Thomas Wouters pointed out that _Abstract.__new__ should use super().__new__()

instead of going straight to object.__new__().

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/abc.py b/Lib/abc.py
index ad5a523..f8e0230 100644
--- a/Lib/abc.py
+++ b/Lib/abc.py
@@ -56,8 +56,6 @@ class _Abstract(object):
     """Helper class inserted into the bases by ABCMeta (using _fix_bases()).
 
     You should never need to explicitly subclass this class.
-
-    There should never be a base class between _Abstract and object.
     """
 
     def __new__(cls, *args, **kwds):
@@ -69,7 +67,7 @@ class _Abstract(object):
         if (args or kwds) and cls.__init__ is object.__init__:
             raise TypeError("Can't pass arguments to __new__ "
                             "without overriding __init__")
-        return object.__new__(cls)
+        return super().__new__(cls)
 
     @classmethod
     def __subclasshook__(cls, subclass):