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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2008-09-15 02:53:23 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2008-09-15 02:53:23 (GMT) |
| commit | c272362747131e821abe0bd241a16dea2b8c2751 (patch) | |
| tree | 912a1bb9493f2ddee43aaeb09e46de394061d89b /Doc | |
| parent | 9feab31d985fefcae8eb70c546ff090b72f066a0 (diff) | |
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mention that object.__init__ no longer takes arbitrary args and kwargs
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index 5adf8d1..94124fa 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -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 |