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authorBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2012-07-09 18:22:12 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2012-07-09 18:22:12 (GMT)
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Issue #15242: Have PyImport_GetMagicTag() return a const char *
defined in sysmodule.c instead of straight out of a Unicode object. Thanks to Amaury Forgeot d'Arc for noticing the bug and Eric Snow for writing the patch.
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@@ -178,7 +178,8 @@ Importing Modules
.. c:function:: const char * PyImport_GetMagicTag()
Return the magic tag string for :pep:`3147` format Python bytecode file
- names.
+ names. Keep in mind that the value at ``sys.implementation.cache_tag`` is
+ authoritative and should be used instead of this function.
.. versionadded:: 3.2