Cleaned up some __getstate__() docstrings.

3 files changed, 8 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/django/db/models/query.py b/django/db/models/query.py
index becdef6c6e..b6449582b2 100644
--- a/django/db/models/query.py
+++ b/django/db/models/query.py
@@ -197,9 +197,6 @@ class QuerySet(object):
         return obj
 
     def __getstate__(self):
-        """
-        Allows the QuerySet to be pickled.
-        """
         # Force the cache to be fully populated.
         self._fetch_all()
         obj_dict = self.__dict__.copy()
diff --git a/django/template/response.py b/django/template/response.py
index 944a1dcd17..7d6693aee6 100644
--- a/django/template/response.py
+++ b/django/template/response.py
@@ -44,11 +44,9 @@ class SimpleTemplateResponse(HttpResponse):
         self._is_rendered = False
 
     def __getstate__(self):
-        """Pickling support function.
-
-        Ensures that the object can't be pickled before it has been
-        rendered, and that the pickled state only includes rendered
-        data, not the data used to construct the response.
+        """
+        Raise an exception if trying to pickle an unrendered response. Pickle
+        only rendered data, not the data used to construct the response.
         """
         obj_dict = self.__dict__.copy()
         if not self._is_rendered:
diff --git a/django/utils/functional.py b/django/utils/functional.py
index c317293bb2..f86271b28d 100644
--- a/django/utils/functional.py
+++ b/django/utils/functional.py
@@ -300,11 +300,12 @@ class LazyObject(object):
             self._setup()
         return (unpickle_lazyobject, (self._wrapped,))
 
-    # We have to explicitly override __getstate__ so that older versions of
-    # pickle don't try to pickle the __dict__ (which in the case of a
-    # SimpleLazyObject may contain a lambda). The value will end up being
-    # ignored by our __reduce__ and custom unpickler.
     def __getstate__(self):
+        """
+        Prevent older versions of pickle from trying to pickle the __dict__
+        (which in the case of a SimpleLazyObject may contain a lambda). The
+        value will be ignored by __reduce__() and the custom unpickler.
+        """
         return {}
 
     def __copy__(self):