From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 03:33:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify that copy_reg.pickle() is not intended for use with "classic" classes.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.1c2~67
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Clarify that copy_reg.pickle() is not intended for use with "classic" classes.
This was stated before, but a minor grammatical error made it difficult to be
sure of the meaning.
This closes SF bug #530143.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcopyreg.tex b/Doc/lib/libcopyreg.tex
index 25cc505b194b..b2ea01549bf2 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libcopyreg.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libcopyreg.tex
@@ -22,9 +22,11 @@ functions or class instances.
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{pickle}{type, function\optional{, constructor}}
   Declares that \var{function} should be used as a ``reduction''
-  function for objects of type \var{type}; \var{type} should not a
-  class object.  \var{function} should return either a string or a
-  tuple containing two or three elements.
+  function for objects of type \var{type}; \var{type} must not be a
+  ``classic'' class object.  (Classic classes are handled differently;
+  see the documentation for the \refmodule{pickle} module for
+  details.)  \var{function} should return either a string or a tuple
+  containing two or three elements.
 
   The optional \var{constructor} parameter, if provided, is a
   callable object which can be used to reconstruct the object when