From 5f194202114fd38530c78299d51b6966b4802f59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim B <tim.benger@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 07:27:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Documented how settings must be picklable (#5629)
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Co-authored-by: Adrián Chaves <adrian@chaves.io>
Co-authored-by: Laerte Pereira <5853172+Laerte@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 docs/topics/settings.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/topics/settings.rst b/docs/topics/settings.rst
index 6722ce9ed..90f13f3ef 100644
--- a/docs/topics/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/settings.rst
@@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ class.
 The global defaults are located in the ``scrapy.settings.default_settings``
 module and documented in the :ref:`topics-settings-ref` section.
 
+Compatibility with pickle
+=========================
+
+Setting values must be :ref:`picklable <pickle-picklable>`.
 
 Import paths and classes
 ========================