From c272362747131e821abe0bd241a16dea2b8c2751 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Peterson Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:53:23 +0000 Subject: mention that object.__init__ no longer takes arbitrary args and kwargs --- Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) 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 -- cgit v0.12