Maybe I'm missing something, but why doesn't the following raise errors:
class X(object): __metaclass__ = type
X() X(1) X(1, 2, 3, a="x", b="y")
I would have expected 'this constructor takes no arguments' errors on the last two lines. Or is this expected behaviour?
Thomas
Maybe I'm missing something, but why doesn't the following raise errors:
class X(object): __metaclass__ = type
X() X(1) X(1, 2, 3, a="x", b="y")
I would have expected 'this constructor takes no arguments' errors on the last two lines. Or is this expected behaviour?
Neither object.__init__ nor object.__new__ pays any attention to its argument list. If they did, subclassing would be more difficult.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)