From 01560de287c12a93859554951d99eb66a60107c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:23:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] #16503: clarify "apply" docs.

---
 Doc/library/functions.rst | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 5082479a8f6..ec3b1d67a29 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1676,7 +1676,8 @@ bypass these functions without concerns about missing something important.
    ``function(*args, **keywords)``.
 
    .. deprecated:: 2.3
-      Use the extended call syntax with ``*args`` and ``**keywords`` instead.
+      Use ``function(*args, **keywords)`` instead of
+      ``apply(function, args, keywords)`` (see :ref:`tut-unpacking-arguments`).
 
 
 .. function:: buffer(object[, offset[, size]])