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Author	cjw296
Recipients	benjamin.peterson, cjw296, eric.araujo, georg.brandl, mloskot
Date	2012-06-12.22:05:17
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Message-id	<1339538734.02.0.736323552313.issue4442@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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It's the fact that for immutable types, initialization is done in __new__ instead of __init__ that isn't documented anywhere. This should be Python-level rather than C-level documentation. The example I gave in #msg76473 is confusing without docs anywhere that explain why this is.

It's the fact that for immutable types, initialization is done in __new__ instead of __init__ that isn't documented anywhere. 

This should be Python-level rather than C-level documentation.

The example I gave in #msg76473 is confusing without docs anywhere that explain why this is.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-06-12 22:05:41	cjw296	set	recipients: + cjw296, georg.brandl, benjamin.peterson, eric.araujo, mloskot
2012-06-12 22:05:34	cjw296	set	messageid: <1339538734.02.0.736323552313.issue4442@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2012-06-12 22:05:17	cjw296	create