bpo-42840: Document providing kwargs to type. (#24173)
Co-authored-by: Ken Jin <28750310+Fidget-Spinner@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 370decc..2a6af95 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1713,7 +1713,7 @@
.. class:: type(object)
- type(name, bases, dict)
+ type(name, bases, dict, **kwds)
.. index:: object: type
@@ -1742,6 +1742,13 @@
See also :ref:`bltin-type-objects`.
+ Keyword arguments provided to the three argument form are passed to the
+ appropriate metaclass machinery (usually :meth:`~object.__init_subclass__`)
+ in the same way that keywords in a class
+ definition (besides *metaclass*) would.
+
+ See also :ref:`class-customization`.
+
.. versionchanged:: 3.6
Subclasses of :class:`type` which don't override ``type.__new__`` may no
longer use the one-argument form to get the type of an object.