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I switched to python some years ago because:
- it is used by mainstream open source ai research and many hobbyists
- it has language support to reference, mutate, and recompile its own
bytecode while executing it, and has some syntax mutability
- it's concise
There are downsides to python. Notably it is hard to debug interpreter
problems from chip or kernel misbehavior. C is much better in my opinion.

Anyway, I've been using python for some time without understanding __new__,
which is an important construct.

Here's how the manual says __new__ works. It's not complicated.

1. python calls Class.__new__(cls, ...) when Class(...) is called.
2. Unlike all other methods, __new__ is never passed a self object, and
always passed a class object, no matter how it is decorated.
3. The return value of __new__ is passed on to __init__, after __new__
returns, if and only if it is an object of the class. Then it is returned
to the user.
4. New objects can be constructed via super().__new__(cls), to return.

This lets one write constructors that for example instantiate a child class
selected from arguments and perform other tricks.
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