From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 17:10:52 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: #17489: Add explanatory comment that __getstate__ is not called.
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.0a1~1047
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d9ebf4dc1f2a816ea708e055d544efb2e2d0a7d5;p=python

#17489: Add explanatory comment that __getstate__ is not called.

We don't put coverage directives in the stdlib, but anyone looking at a
coverage report for Random should see the comment and understand why the lines
aren't covered.
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diff --git a/Lib/random.py b/Lib/random.py
index b2e9ae1b84..b183f56687 100644
--- a/Lib/random.py
+++ b/Lib/random.py
@@ -151,6 +151,9 @@ class Random(_random.Random):
 
 ## -------------------- pickle support  -------------------
 
+    # Issue 17489: Since __reduce__ was defined to fix #759889 this is no
+    # longer called; we leave it here because it has been here since random was
+    # rewritten back in 2001 and why risk breaking something.
     def __getstate__(self): # for pickle
         return self.getstate()