Remove undocumented positional parameter of DependenciesContainer provider

docs/main/changelog.rst

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Development version
 -------------------
 - Add ``Configuration.from_ini()`` method to load configuration from ini file.
 - Add ``Configuration.from_dict()`` method to load configuration from dictionary.
+- Remove undocumented positional parameter of ``DependenciesContainer`` provider.
 
 3.17.1
 ------

src/dependency_injector/providers.pyx

@@ -507,14 +507,10 @@ cdef class DependenciesContainer(Object):
         use_case.execute()
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, provides=None, **dependencies):
+    def __init__(self, **dependencies):
         """Initializer."""
         self.__providers = dependencies
-
-        if provides:
-            self._override_providers(container=provides)
-
-        super(DependenciesContainer, self).__init__(provides)
+        super(DependenciesContainer, self).__init__(None)
 
     def __deepcopy__(self, memo):
         """Create and return full copy of provider."""
@@ -2160,7 +2156,6 @@ cdef class Container(Provider):
             deepcopy(self.container, memo),
             **deepcopy(self.overriding_providers, memo),
         )
-        # self._copy_overridings(copied, memo)
 
         return copied
 

tests/unit/providers/test_base_py2_py3.py

@@ -367,11 +367,3 @@ class DependenciesContainerTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
         self.assertFalse(dependency.overridden)
         self.assertFalse(dependency.overridden)
-
-    def test_init_with_container_and_providers(self):
-        provider = providers.DependenciesContainer(
-            self.container, dependency=providers.Dependency())
-        dependency = provider.dependency
-
-        self.assertTrue(dependency.overridden)
-        self.assertIs(dependency.last_overriding, self.container.dependency)