[Python-checkins] bpo-6761: Enhance __call__ documentation (GH-7987)

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Tue Oct 27 12:19:06 EDT 2020


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/95f710c55714153f0c8cce48f8215bb3d866ac1d
commit: 95f710c55714153f0c8cce48f8215bb3d866ac1d
branch: master
author: Andre Delfino <adelfino at gmail.com>
committer: vstinner <vstinner at python.org>
date: 2020-10-27T17:18:57+01:00
summary:

bpo-6761: Enhance __call__ documentation (GH-7987)

files:
M Doc/reference/datamodel.rst

diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index d92e19761a965..c882301ad3a4a 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -2168,7 +2168,7 @@ Emulating callable objects
    .. index:: pair: call; instance
 
    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, ...)``.
+   ``x(arg1, arg2, ...)`` roughly translates to ``type(x).__call__(x, arg1, ...)``.
 
 
 .. _sequence-types:



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