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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libpickle.tex | 4 |
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libpickle.tex b/Doc/lib/libpickle.tex index 579992f..128b29d 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libpickle.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libpickle.tex @@ -86,7 +86,9 @@ First of all, the class must be defined at the top level in a module. \renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(pickle protocol)} Next, it must normally be possible to create class instances by -calling the class without arguments. If this is undesirable, the +calling the class without arguments. Usually, this is best +accomplished by providing default values for all arguments to its +\code{__init__} method (if it has one). If this is undesirable, the class can define a method \code{__getinitargs__()}, which should return a {\em tuple} containing the arguments to be passed to the class constructor (\code{__init__()}). |