What's an example use case for a Python classmethod?

Question

I\'ve read What are Class methods in Python for? but the examples in that post are complex. I am looking for a clear, simple, bare-bones example of a particular use case fo

Answer 1

Well __new__ is a pretty important classmethod. It's where instances usually come from

so dict() calls dict.__new__ of course, but there is another handy way to make dicts sometimes which is the classmethod dict.fromkeys()

eg.

>>> dict.fromkeys("12345")
{'1': None, '3': None, '2': None, '5': None, '4': None}