In article <mailman.965.1259143133.2873.python-list@python.org>,
Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> wrote:
>
>If you want to prevent an instance being created in the first place,
>you can override __new__().

Or just raise an exception in __init__(), which I think is more common
practice.
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