[New-bugs-announce] [issue31472] "Emulating callable objects" documentation misleading

[Nathan Marrow]

New submission from Nathan Marrow:

The documentation for emulating callable objects with __call__ seems to imply only positional arguments are supported. For instance, it says __call__ is "object.__call__(self[, args…])" and describes:

Called when the instance is “called” as a function; if this method is defined, x(arg1, arg2, ...) is a shorthand for x.__call__(arg1, arg2, ...).

When it should be something like (Not sure exactly what the syntax would be here):
"object.__call__(self[, args…] [,**kwargs...])"

Called when the instance is “called” as a function; if this method is defined, x(arg1, arg2, ..., arg3=arg3) is a shorthand for x.__call__(arg1, arg2, ..., arg3=arg3).

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 302185
nosy: docs at python, nmarrow
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: "Emulating callable objects" documentation misleading
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7

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