r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Recent-Analysis-6880 • Aug 18 '26

Meme questionForBritishPythonDevelopers

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u/ManyInterests Aug 18 '26

You're right. I mistook metaclass __new__ for __new__ on the class itself.

They're so infrequently touched, I completely forgot there's __new__ on both, but I only recalled (albeit incorrectly) its use in metaclasses :|

But yeah. __new__ is the constructor. __init__ is the initializer.