Hmm, perhaps there is no such thing as a constructor in Python then? As the documentation says, "__new__() and __init__() work together in constructing objects"

Hmm, perhaps there is no such thing as a constructor in Python then? As the documentation says, "__new__() and __init__() work together in constructing objects". In Java's constructors you already have access to the instance (and could leak it outside the object if you wanted to) whereas in __new__ you don't, so it doesn't seem like __new__ by itself could be called the constructor either.