On 5/3/2014 6:37 AM, Jurko Gospodnetić wrote:
Hi all.
I was wandering why Python implements its __new__ method as a static
and not a class method?
For a technical internal reason that Guido and maybe others have
explained on pydev (more than once). I forget the details partly because
I do not care beyond knowing that there is a reason. You might be able
to find something by searching the pydev archives at gmane.org for
'__new__ static method'. In other words, Guido knows that it 'should' be
a class method, if it could be.
Normally, I'd chalk this issue up under 'bike-shedding', but it came
up while teaching others about Python and so does not feel right leaving
it as 'because that's the way it is'. :-)
'Because that is how it has to be for technical internal reasons beyond
the scope of my teaching.'
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