From: Georg Brandl Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 17:45:58 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Mention that the tuple returned by __reduce__ is pickled as normal. X-Git-Tag: v2.6a3~265 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3b1202dfe8c94cc5bb8e0ac0d964a2d8d3270d28;p=python Mention that the tuple returned by __reduce__ is pickled as normal. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/pickle.rst b/Doc/library/pickle.rst index 918fb8e786..28ccf927e3 100644 --- a/Doc/library/pickle.rst +++ b/Doc/library/pickle.rst @@ -480,8 +480,9 @@ local name relative to its module; the pickle module searches the module namespace to determine the object's module. When a tuple is returned, it must be between two and five elements long. -Optional elements can either be omitted, or ``None`` can be provided as their -value. The semantics of each element are: +Optional elements can either be omitted, or ``None`` can be provided as their +value. The contents of this tuple are pickled as normal and used to +reconstruct the object at unpickling time. The semantics of each element are: * A callable object that will be called to create the initial version of the object. The next element of the tuple will provide arguments for this callable,