From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:56:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: __new__ is a static method
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__new__ is a static method
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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex
index d95519fb4a..46388b2faa 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex
@@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ extracting a slice may not make sense.  (One example of this is the
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[object]{__new__}{cls\optional{, \moreargs}}
 Called to create a new instance of class \var{cls}.  \method{__new__()}
-is a class method (special-cased so you need not declare it as such)
+is a static method (special-cased so you need not declare it as such)
 that takes the class of which an instance was requested as its first
 argument.  The remaining arguments are those passed to the object
 constructor expression (the call to the class).  The return value of