diff -r 8dcd49938611 Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst	Fri Jun 12 01:14:53 2009 +0200
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst	Sat Jun 13 16:11:42 2009 +0000
@@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@
 
    .. index:: pair: subclassing; immutable types
 
-   Called to create a new instance of class *cls*.  :meth:`__new__` is a static
+   Called to create a new instance of class *cls*.  :meth:`__new__` is a class
    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