From 2f31d561d5039dbe008c0a3d57f85d8a90423a63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 03:33:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify that copy_reg.pickle() is not intended for use with "classic" classes. This was stated before, but a minor grammatical error made it difficult to be sure of the meaning. This closes SF bug #530143. --- Doc/lib/libcopyreg.tex | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcopyreg.tex b/Doc/lib/libcopyreg.tex index 25cc505b19..b2ea01549b 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libcopyreg.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libcopyreg.tex @@ -22,9 +22,11 @@ functions or class instances. \begin{funcdesc}{pickle}{type, function\optional{, constructor}} Declares that \var{function} should be used as a ``reduction'' - function for objects of type \var{type}; \var{type} should not a - class object. \var{function} should return either a string or a - tuple containing two or three elements. + function for objects of type \var{type}; \var{type} must not be a + ``classic'' class object. (Classic classes are handled differently; + see the documentation for the \refmodule{pickle} module for + details.) \var{function} should return either a string or a tuple + containing two or three elements. The optional \var{constructor} parameter, if provided, is a callable object which can be used to reconstruct the object when -- 2.50.0