[Python-checkins] bpo-42840: Document providing kwargs to type. (#24173)

[gvanrossum]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/72fcd14a82369ed32a5846d76f50e3026cf4eec2
commit: 72fcd14a82369ed32a5846d76f50e3026cf4eec2
branch: master
author: Erik Soma <stillusingirc at gmail.com>
committer: gvanrossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com>
date: 2021-03-01T15:21:04-08:00
summary:

bpo-42840: Document providing kwargs to type. (#24173)

Co-authored-by: Ken Jin <28750310+Fidget-Spinner at users.noreply.github.com>

files:
M Doc/library/functions.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 370decc51087f..2a6af95cdf9ef 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.