Replace previously removed Statement initialization parameters

Statement is a subclass of str. Statement.__new__ should behave like str.__new__. Meaning it should accept any object as it’s argument, and our extended initialization parameters (i.e. command, arg_list) should not be allowed as positional arguments, only named arguments.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/cmd2/parsing.py b/cmd2/parsing.py
index 082cc7aa..553c5b9a 100644
--- a/cmd2/parsing.py
+++ b/cmd2/parsing.py
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ class Statement(str):
     the output redirection clauses.
     """
     def __new__(cls,
-                value: str,
+                obj: object,
+                *,
                 raw: str = '',
                 command: str = '',
                 arg_list: List[str] = None,
@@ -58,7 +59,7 @@ class Statement(str):
         We must override __new__ because we are subclassing `str` which is
         immutable.
         """
-        stmt = super().__new__(cls, value)
+        stmt = super().__new__(cls, obj)
         stmt.raw = raw
         stmt.command = command