- Restored the "catchall" constructor on the base

TypeEngine class, with a deprecation warning.
This so that code which does something like
Integer(11) still succeeds.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/__init__.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/__init__.py
index 2b4cfde0f..0cab28da1 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/__init__.py
@@ -116,6 +116,6 @@ from sqlalchemy.engine import create_engine, engine_from_config
 __all__ = sorted(name for name, obj in locals().items()
                  if not (name.startswith('_') or inspect.ismodule(obj)))
 
-__version__ = '0.7b3'
+__version__ = '0.7b4'
 
 del inspect, sys
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/types.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/types.py
index 100a20c6e..de74b2031 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/types.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/types.py
@@ -241,10 +241,11 @@ class TypeEngine(AbstractType):
                         encode('ascii', 'backslashreplace')
         # end Py2K
 
-    def __init__(self):
-        # supports getargspec of the __init__ method
-        # used by generic __repr__
-        pass
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Support implementations that were passing arguments"""
+        if args or kwargs:
+            util.warn_deprecated("Passing arguments to type object "
+                    "constructor %s is deprecated" % self.__class__)
 
     def __repr__(self):
         return "%s(%s)" % (