Re: super().__init__() and bytes

Op 4/12/2024 om 0:14 schreef Greg Ewing via Python-list:

On 4/12/24 3:24 am, Roel Schroeven wrote:

It's not entirely clear to me though how bytes.__new__ *can* set an object's value. Isn't __new__ also a regular function?

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Yes, but the __new__ methods of the builtin immutable objects (int,
str, bytes, etc.) are implemented in C, and so are able to do things
that Python methods cannot.

Aha, yes, that's what I already suspected, but I wasn't sure. Thanks for confirming that.
All clear now. Thanks to Anders and Greg for explaining this to me.
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