https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e3ed574f6acddf76e96a9b0fcbad35f15508cba1
commit: e3ed574f6acddf76e96a9b0fcbad35f15508cba1
branch: main
author: Josh Cannon <[email protected]>
committer: hugovk <[email protected]>
date: 2024-05-21T19:37:32Z
summary:

gh-90562: Mention slots pitfall in dataclass docs (#107391)

Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/library/dataclasses.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/dataclasses.rst b/Doc/library/dataclasses.rst
index 045bf6277289d8..cf707ca5b6802d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/dataclasses.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/dataclasses.rst
@@ -185,7 +185,10 @@ Module contents
    - *slots*: If true (the default is ``False``), :attr:`~object.__slots__` 
attribute
      will be generated and new class will be returned instead of the original 
one.
      If :attr:`!__slots__` is already defined in the class, then 
:exc:`TypeError`
-     is raised.
+     is raised. Calling no-arg :func:`super` in dataclasses using 
``slots=True`` will result in
+     the following exception being raised:
+     ``TypeError: super(type, obj): obj must be an instance or subtype of 
type``.
+     The two-arg :func:`super` is a valid workaround. See :gh:`90562` for full 
details.
 
     .. versionadded:: 3.10
 

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