[Python-Dev] Odd new-style class __new__ behavior

[Kevin Jacobs]

Suppose I define:

class Foo(object):
  def __new__(cls):
    return 1

class Bar(object):
  def __new__(cls):
    return [1,2,3]

Python 2.2 returns:
  print Foo()
  > 1
  print Bar()
  > []

I would expect that Bar() should return [1,2,3].  Am I running into some
clever undocumented feature or a bug?  

Thanks,
-Kevin

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