On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Fred Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's good to move work into __init__ where reasonable, so that it can be > avoided if a subclass wants it done in a completely different way, but new > can't work that way. >
And that is exactly the reason why, the _pickle module doesn't use __new__ for initialization. Doing any kind of argument parsing in __new__ prevents subclasses from customizing the arguments for their __init__. Although, I agree that __new__ should be used, whenever it is possible, to initialize struct members. -- Alexandre _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
