Commit 75efd445 authored by Robert Bradshaw's avatar Robert Bradshaw Committed by GitHub

Remove obsolete note about __new__ vs __cinit__.

Using __new__ was made an error 8 years ago, keeping this in the docs just causes confusion at this point (e.g. #2311).
parent 53b6f435
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See :ref:`existing-pointers-instantiation` for an example.
.. Note::
Older Cython files may use :meth:`__new__` rather than :meth:`__cinit__`. The two are synonyms.
The name change from :meth:`__new__` to :meth:`__cinit__` was to avoid
confusion with Python :meth:`__new__` (which is an entirely different
concept) and eventually the use of :meth:`__new__` in Cython will be
disallowed to pave the way for supporting Python-style :meth:`__new__`
.. [#] http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#object.__new__
.. _finalization_method:
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