[Pyrex] Subclassing - design question

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Mar 9 00:34:39 CET 2006


Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Please note anywhere in the docs, that
> the __new__ method of a class which
> should be subclassable should have
> only a single required parameter and
> a placeholder for additional ones.

I do mention under "Special Methods of Extension Types/
Initialisation methods: __new__ and __init__" that
this is recommended for Python subclassability. I
could perhaps extend that to subclassability in
general, since it applies equally well to Pyrex
subclassing.

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