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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst | 9 |
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index 94124fa..7a9035e 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -3156,9 +3156,12 @@ 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`. +* :meth:`object.__init__` previously accepted arbitrary arguments and + keyword arguments, ignoring them. In Python 2.6, this is no longer + allowed and will result in a :exc:`TypeError`. This will affect + :meth:`__init__` methods that end up calling the corresponding + method on :class:`object` (perhaps through using :func:`super`). + See :issue:`1683368` for discussion. * The :class:`Decimal` constructor now accepts leading and trailing whitespace when passed a string. Previously it would raise an |