diff -r d8b527c7785f -r 81c5ba188805 Doc/reference/datamodel.rst --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst Thu May 01 17:42:33 2014 +0200 +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst Fri May 02 12:16:41 2014 +0200 @@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@ .. 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