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Wed May 9 21:18:12 CEST 2012 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-May/119406.html

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On May 09, 2012, at 05:20 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> >Ah, good point. In that case, consider me convinced: static method it
> >is. It can join mro() as the second non-underscore method defined on
> >type().
>
> +1
>
> If I may dip into the bikeshed paint once more.  I think it would be
> useful to
> establish a naming convention for alternative constructors implemented as
> {static,class}methods.  I don't like `build_class()` much.  Would you be
> opposed to `type.new()`?

Depends on how far you want this new term to go since "new" is somewhat
overloaded thanks to __new__(). I personally like create().
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