[New-bugs-announce] [issue22392] Clarify documentation of __getinitargs__

[David Gilman]

New submission from David Gilman:

Implementations of __getinitargs__ return a tuple of the positional arguments for __init__.   This wasn't initially apparent to me after reading the docs: I thought you were passing a tuple (args, kwargs) that would get called f(*args, **kwargs) and had to go to the pickle implementation to find out what you were supposed to do.

The proposed documentation enhancement: mention that you're just supposed to return a tuple of positional args and that it doesn't support kwargs.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 226795
nosy: David.Gilman, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Clarify documentation of __getinitargs__
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7

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