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From: Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: super().__init__() and bytes
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 12:14:17 +1300
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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?

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.

-- 
Greg