From 63c186b7e3a02c32b7185985cbc992c42e68ae62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:56:17 +0000 Subject: __new__ is a static method --- Doc/ref/ref3.tex | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex index 0b79dfd..d78e546 100644 --- a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex +++ b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex @@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ extracting a slice may not make sense. (One example of this is the \begin{methoddesc}[object]{__new__}{cls\optional{, \moreargs}} Called to create a new instance of class \var{cls}. \method{__new__()} -is a class method (special-cased so you need not declare it as such) +is a static method (special-cased so you need not declare it as such) that takes the class of which an instance was requested as its first argument. The remaining arguments are those passed to the object constructor expression (the call to the class). The return value of -- cgit v0.12