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Author gvanrossum
Recipients KayEss, Rhamphoryncus, benjamin.peterson, blakeross, georg.brandl, gregory.p.smith, gvanrossum, jaraco, jcea, jonash, rhettinger, terry.reedy
Date 2014-05-28.15:05:08
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Message-id <1401289509.54.0.542244672138.issue1683368@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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If you don't know enough about the base class you shouldn't be subclassing it. In this particular case you should be overriding __init__, not __new__.
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2014-05-28 15:05:09gvanrossumsetrecipients: + gvanrossum, georg.brandl, rhettinger, terry.reedy, gregory.p.smith, jcea, jaraco, Rhamphoryncus, blakeross, benjamin.peterson, KayEss, jonash
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