From 15ad93556876fc401f244af7b90e2bae9ede1f55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:56:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] __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 d95519fb4ab..46388b2faae 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