From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:53:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: mention that object.__init__ no longer takes arbitrary args and kwargs
X-Git-Tag: v2.6rc2~14
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c272362747131e821abe0bd241a16dea2b8c2751;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

mention that object.__init__ no longer takes arbitrary args and kwargs
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 5adf8d1de02e..94124fa8f1ad 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