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authorChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2008-11-30 21:12:34 (GMT)
committerChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2008-11-30 21:12:34 (GMT)
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w# requires Py_ssize_t, not int.
This documentation bug has cost me several hours of debugging :/
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@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ variable(s) whose address should be passed.
or use ``w#`` instead. Only single-segment buffer objects are accepted;
:exc:`TypeError` is raised for all others.
-``w#`` (read-write character buffer) [char \*, int]
+``w#`` (read-write character buffer) [char \*, Py_ssize_t]
Like ``s#``, but accepts any object which implements the read-write buffer
interface. The :ctype:`char \*` variable is set to point to the first byte of
the buffer, and the :ctype:`int` is set to the length of the buffer. Only