__new__ does not call __init__ as described in descrintro.html (WAS:Can __new__ prevent __init__ from being called?)

[Steven Bethard]

Felix Wiemann wrote:

Steven Bethard wrote:

http://www.python.org/2.2.3/descrintro.html#__new__

[snip]
I'm just seeing that the web page says:

| If you return an existing object, the constructor call will still
| call its __init__ method. If you return an object of a different
| class, its __init__ method will be called.

However, the latter doesn't seem to be true, or am I missing
something?

class A(object): ... def __init__(self):
... print 'Init of A.'
...
instance = A() Init of A.
class B(object): ... def __new__(self):
... return instance
... def __init__(self):
... print 'Init of B.'
...
B() # <--------- A's __init__ is *not* called. <__main__.A object at 0x4062424c>
instance = object.__new__( B)
B() # <--------- B's __init__ is called

Init of B.
<__main__.B object at 0x406243ec>

So there seems to be some type-checking in type.__call__.

Yeah, I saw the same thing in playing around with this. Don't know what
to make of it. I wonder if we should file a documentation bug? I can't
find __new__ explained anywhere in the Language Reference. Can
documentation bugs be filed for descrintro.html ?

STeVe

[Aahz]

In article <pv************ ********@comcas t.com>,
Steven Bethard <st************ @gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah, I saw the same thing in playing around with this. Don't know
what to make of it. I wonder if we should file a documentation bug? I
can't find __new__ explained anywhere in the Language Reference. Can
documentatio n bugs be filed for descrintro.html ?

Absolutely! And they're especially welcome if they contain suggested
replacement text.
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"The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable
classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code --
not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." --GvR

[Steven Bethard]

Aahz wrote:

In article <pv************ ********@comcas t.com>,
Steven Bethard <st************ @gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah, I saw the same thing in playing around with this. Don't know
what to make of it. I wonder if we should file a documentation bug? I
can't find __new__ explained anywhere in the Language Reference. Can
documentati on bugs be filed for descrintro.html ?

Absolutely! And they're especially welcome if they contain suggested
replacement text.

Cool. I added a documentation bug:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func...70&atid=105470

Steve