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| author | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2016-07-31 02:42:49 (GMT) |
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| committer | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2016-07-31 02:42:49 (GMT) |
| commit | 607e1c4c44131fd77e714620d127151149152345 (patch) | |
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Issue 27366: PEP 487 docs updates
- Porting note for type keyword arg handling
- __init_subclass__ note regarding metaclass hint
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index 075f096..1b70345 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -1672,6 +1672,13 @@ class defining the method. The default implementation ``object.__init_subclass__`` does nothing, but raises an error if it is called with any arguments. + .. note:: + + The metaclass hint ``metaclass`` is consumed by the rest of the type + machinery, and is never passed to ``__init_subclass__`` implementations. + The actual metaclass (rather than the explicit hint) can be accessed as + ``type(cls)``. + .. versionadded:: 3.6 |