Improving signature of urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgrWithPriorAuth.__init__

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Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgrWithPriorAuth.__init__ (link) has (self, *args, **kwargs), but the args are just passed through to super, and the superclass for HTTPPasswordMgrWithPriorAuth takes no arguments. The passthrough doesn't serve a purpose and it muddies introspection of the method. I'd like to update urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgrWithPriorAuth.__init__ to have no arguments, so that signature introspection is more accurate. Currently, typeshed needs to have urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgrWithPriorAuth.__init__ on its allowlist for stubtest errors as a result of the poor introspection.

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This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

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Linked PRs

• gh-127734: improve signature of urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgrWithPriorAuth.__init__ #127735
• [3.13] gh-127734: improve signature of urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgrWithPriorAuth.__init__ (GH-127735) #127744
• [3.12] gh-127734: improve signature of urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgrWithPriorAuth.__init__ (GH-127735) #127745