Any ideas about the best work around for __new__ losing its arguments?

Question

So, I only realised today that __new__ is deprecated for receiving arguments, as of python 2.6 (it isn\'t mentioned in the documentation, which is also not true

Answer 1

Thomas put me right in his answer, but I should add that the solution in my case was trivial: add a __new__ method to my base class with the lines:

class Base(object):
    def __new__(cls, *args, **kws):
        instance = super(Base, cls).__new__(cls)
        instance.__init__(*args, **kws)
        return instance