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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-12-18 00:25:27 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-12-18 00:25:27 (GMT) |
| commit | 07b1c877b2d07d39405184cde7d60ccf048e6d1d (patch) | |
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Issue #13522: document error return values of some float and complex C API functions.
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/float.rst b/Doc/c-api/float.rst index 757efd3..27a75e3 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/float.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/float.rst @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ Floating Point Objects Return a C :c:type:`double` representation of the contents of *pyfloat*. If *pyfloat* is not a Python floating point object but has a :meth:`__float__` method, this method will first be called to convert *pyfloat* into a float. + This method returns ``-1.0`` upon failure, so one should call + :c:func:`PyErr_Occurred` to check for errors. .. c:function:: double PyFloat_AS_DOUBLE(PyObject *pyfloat) |