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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2008-09-15 02:53:23 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2008-09-15 02:53:23 (GMT)
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mention that object.__init__ no longer takes arbitrary args and kwargs
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@@ -3156,6 +3156,10 @@ that may require changes to your code:
before adding elements from the iterable. This change makes the
behavior match ``list.__init__()``.
+* :meth:`object.__init__` previously accepted arbitrary arguments and keyword
+ arguments. In Python 2.6, this is no longer allowed and will result in a
+ :exc:`TypeError`. See issue :issue:`1683368`.
+
* The :class:`Decimal` constructor now accepts leading and trailing
whitespace when passed a string. Previously it would raise an
:exc:`InvalidOperation` exception. On the other hand, the