[SQLObject] is SQLObject.new() gone?

[<pa...@su...>]

Hi,

following this tread:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=30269&style=flat&viewday=15&viewmonth=200312

I did override the new method of my classes to set up attributes 
beforehand like so:

def new(cls, **kw):
     dostuff_here()
     ....
     return super(MyClass, cls).new(**kw)

new = classmethod(new)

Having upgraded python (from 2.2 to 2.3) and probably sqlobject (not 
sure cause I used svn before... now its what gentoo calls 0.6) the above 
broke my app.

   File "/mnt/data/projects/pki/certs.py", line 189, in new
     obj = super(CertItem, cls).new(**kw)
AttributeError: 'super' object has no attribute 'new

It looks like the SQLObject class has no new() method anymore ;(. Is 
there a way to get this functionality back? Do I have to override 
__init__ now? (I recall having read to not doing so, but it seems 
natural since instances are now created like inst = SQLObject(**kw))

thanks
  Paul
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