From 72fcd14a82369ed32a5846d76f50e3026cf4eec2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Soma Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 18:21:04 -0500 Subject: bpo-42840: Document providing kwargs to type. (#24173) Co-authored-by: Ken Jin <28750310+Fidget-Spinner@users.noreply.github.com> --- Doc/library/functions.rst | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 370decc..2a6af95 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -1713,7 +1713,7 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. .. class:: type(object) - type(name, bases, dict) + type(name, bases, dict, **kwds) .. index:: object: type @@ -1742,6 +1742,13 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. See also :ref:`bltin-type-objects`. + Keyword arguments provided to the three argument form are passed to the + appropriate metaclass machinery (usually :meth:`~object.__init_subclass__`) + in the same way that keywords in a class + definition (besides *metaclass*) would. + + See also :ref:`class-customization`. + .. versionchanged:: 3.6 Subclasses of :class:`type` which don't override ``type.__new__`` may no longer use the one-argument form to get the type of an object. -- cgit v0.12