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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2002-03-19 03:33:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2002-03-19 03:33:33 (GMT) |
| commit | 2f31d561d5039dbe008c0a3d57f85d8a90423a63 (patch) | |
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| parent | 517a721b7f124194dcd2a62f7abf82e3a4bba022 (diff) | |
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Clarify that copy_reg.pickle() is not intended for use with "classic" classes.
This was stated before, but a minor grammatical error made it difficult to be
sure of the meaning.
This closes SF bug #530143.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libcopyreg.tex | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcopyreg.tex b/Doc/lib/libcopyreg.tex index 25cc505..b2ea015 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libcopyreg.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libcopyreg.tex @@ -22,9 +22,11 @@ functions or class instances. \begin{funcdesc}{pickle}{type, function\optional{, constructor}} Declares that \var{function} should be used as a ``reduction'' - function for objects of type \var{type}; \var{type} should not a - class object. \var{function} should return either a string or a - tuple containing two or three elements. + function for objects of type \var{type}; \var{type} must not be a + ``classic'' class object. (Classic classes are handled differently; + see the documentation for the \refmodule{pickle} module for + details.) \var{function} should return either a string or a tuple + containing two or three elements. The optional \var{constructor} parameter, if provided, is a callable object which can be used to reconstruct the object when |