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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2014-10-06 16:01:02 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2014-10-06 16:01:02 (GMT) |
| commit | 7788dba204d23d15da2dda8a63e6a719db8a02a7 (patch) | |
| tree | f6bb0946d77516472f1f7f3d43896ac57970c461 | |
| parent | 436ebf8a52f2cdaaf4870a646e0fbb6b5c61bf45 (diff) | |
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Closes #19071: "self" argument is not the module for module functions in 2.x.
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diff --git a/Doc/extending/extending.rst b/Doc/extending/extending.rst index 8e8c3ab..5488ce9 100644 --- a/Doc/extending/extending.rst +++ b/Doc/extending/extending.rst @@ -89,8 +89,9 @@ example, the single expression ``"ls -l"``) to the arguments passed to the C function. The C function always has two arguments, conventionally named *self* and *args*. -The *self* argument points to the module object for module-level functions; -for a method it would point to the object instance. +For module functions, the *self* argument is *NULL* or a pointer selected while +initializing the module (see :c:func:`Py_InitModule4`). For a method, it would +point to the object instance. The *args* argument will be a pointer to a Python tuple object containing the arguments. Each item of the tuple corresponds to an argument in the call's |