[Python-Dev] Odd new-style class new behavior (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
30 Mar 2002 15:08:04 +0000

Kevin Jacobs <jacobs@penguin.theopalgroup.com> writes:

Suppose I define:

class Foo(object): def new(cls): return 1 class Bar(object): def new(cls): return [1,2,3] Python 2.2 returns: print Foo() > 1 print Bar() > [] I would expect that Bar() should return [1,2,3]. Am I running into some clever undocumented feature or a bug?

Is tp_init being called on the returned list?

Cheers, M.

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