bpo-6761: Enhance __call__ documentation (GH-7987)

diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index d92e19761a9654311f68523d58a746a3823f993b..c882301ad3a4afa647348b6b98479a7fdb126711 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -2168,7 +2168,7 @@ Emulating callable objects
    .. index:: pair: call; instance
 
    Called when the instance is "called" as a function; if this method is defined,
-   ``x(arg1, arg2, ...)`` is a shorthand for ``x.__call__(arg1, arg2, ...)``.
+   ``x(arg1, arg2, ...)`` roughly translates to ``type(x).__call__(x, arg1, ...)``.
 
 
 .. _sequence-types: