super and __new__ confusion

Question

As what I just learned, I can use super() this way:
super(class, obj_of_class-or-_subclass_of_class)

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Answer 1

From the Python release notes on overriding the __new__ method:

__new__ is a static method, not a class method. I initially thought it would have to be a class method, and that's why I added the classmethod primitive. Unfortunately, with class methods, upcalls don't work right in this case, so I had to make it a static method with an explicit class as its first argument.

Since __new__ is a static method, super(...).__new__ returns a static method. There is no binding of cls to the first argument in this case. All arguments need to be supplied explicitly.