> I think there are two options simple enough to sneak in to 3.3:
> 
> (1) The trivial patch of initially setting self->args in __new__().
> 
> (2) Georg's idea of additionally setting a __newargs__ attribute in
> __new__() and using it in __reduce__().  However, I would store
> __newargs__ directly in the struct to avoid always triggering creation
> of a dict for the instance.

At this point of the release process, the trivial approach sounds safer
to me (but is it?).