Commit d47f0dd2 authored by M. Eric Irrgang's avatar M. Eric Irrgang Committed by Ivan Levkivskyi

bpo-32996: Documentation fix-up. (GH-16646)

PR #4906 changed the typing.Generic class hierarchy, leaving an
outdated comment in the library reference. User-defined Generic ABCs now
must get a abc.ABCMeta metaclass from something other than typing.Generic
inheritance.
parent a05fcd3c
......@@ -307,9 +307,10 @@ User defined generic type aliases are also supported. Examples::
def inproduct(v: Vec[T]) -> T: # Same as Iterable[Tuple[T, T]]
return sum(x*y for x, y in v)
The metaclass used by :class:`Generic` is a subclass of :class:`abc.ABCMeta`.
A generic class can be an ABC by including abstract methods or properties,
and generic classes can also have ABCs as base classes without a metaclass
.. versionchanged:: 3.7
:class:`Generic` no longer has a custom metaclass.
A user-defined generic class can have ABCs as base classes without a metaclass
conflict. Generic metaclasses are not supported. The outcome of parameterizing
generics is cached, and most types in the typing module are hashable and
comparable for equality.
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