In article <mailman.6275.1391257695.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
> The existence of __new__ is an > advanced topic that many programmers never encounter. Taking a quick > scan through some large projects (Django, edX, SQLAlchemy, mako), the > ratio of __new__ implementations to __init__ implementations ranges from > 0% to 1.5%, which falls into "rare" territory for me. >From our own codebase: $ find . -name '*.py' | xargs grep 'def.*__new__' | wc -l 1 $ find . -name '*.py' | xargs grep 'def.*__init__' | wc -l 228 Doing the same searches over all the .py files in our virtualenv, I get 2830 (__init__) vs. 50 (__new__). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
