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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/reference/datamodel.rst | 8 |
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index 1dd8e42..d1702cc 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -1166,10 +1166,10 @@ Basic customization with appropriate arguments and then modifying the newly-created instance as necessary before returning it. - If :meth:`__new__` returns an instance of *cls*, then the new instance's - :meth:`__init__` method will be invoked like ``__init__(self[, ...])``, where - *self* is the new instance and the remaining arguments are the same as were - passed to :meth:`__new__`. + If :meth:`__new__` is invoked during object construction and it returns an + instance or subclass of *cls*, then the new instance’s :meth:`__init__` method + will be invoked like ``__init__(self[, ...])``, where *self* is the new instance + and the remaining arguments are the same as were passed to the object constructor. If :meth:`__new__` does not return an instance of *cls*, then the new instance's :meth:`__init__` method will not be invoked. |