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Creating Objects With .__new__()
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Object creation with __new__. When writing Python classes, you typically don’t need to provide your own implementation of the __new__ special method.
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Most of the time, the base implementation from the built-in object class is sufficient to build an empty object of your current class. However, there are a few interesting use cases for this method.
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For example, you can use __new__ to create subclasses of immutable types, such as int, float, tuple, and string.
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In the following sections of the course, you’ll learn how to write custom implementations of __new__ in your classes. To do this, you’ll code a few examples that will give you an idea of when you might need to override this method.
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To get started, in the next section, you’ll see how to make use of the __new__ special method in your code to provide custom object creators.
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