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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-10-06 10:11:56 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-10-06 10:11:56 (GMT)
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Migrate to Sphinx 1.0 C language constructs.
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@@ -11,22 +11,22 @@ The macros in this section are used for managing reference counts of Python
objects.
-.. cfunction:: void Py_INCREF(PyObject *o)
+.. c:function:: void Py_INCREF(PyObject *o)
Increment the reference count for object *o*. The object must not be *NULL*; if
- you aren't sure that it isn't *NULL*, use :cfunc:`Py_XINCREF`.
+ you aren't sure that it isn't *NULL*, use :c:func:`Py_XINCREF`.
-.. cfunction:: void Py_XINCREF(PyObject *o)
+.. c:function:: void Py_XINCREF(PyObject *o)
Increment the reference count for object *o*. The object may be *NULL*, in
which case the macro has no effect.
-.. cfunction:: void Py_DECREF(PyObject *o)
+.. c:function:: void Py_DECREF(PyObject *o)
Decrement the reference count for object *o*. The object must not be *NULL*; if
- you aren't sure that it isn't *NULL*, use :cfunc:`Py_XDECREF`. If the reference
+ you aren't sure that it isn't *NULL*, use :c:func:`Py_XDECREF`. If the reference
count reaches zero, the object's type's deallocation function (which must not be
*NULL*) is invoked.
@@ -36,25 +36,25 @@ objects.
when a class instance with a :meth:`__del__` method is deallocated). While
exceptions in such code are not propagated, the executed code has free access to
all Python global variables. This means that any object that is reachable from
- a global variable should be in a consistent state before :cfunc:`Py_DECREF` is
+ a global variable should be in a consistent state before :c:func:`Py_DECREF` is
invoked. For example, code to delete an object from a list should copy a
reference to the deleted object in a temporary variable, update the list data
- structure, and then call :cfunc:`Py_DECREF` for the temporary variable.
+ structure, and then call :c:func:`Py_DECREF` for the temporary variable.
-.. cfunction:: void Py_XDECREF(PyObject *o)
+.. c:function:: void Py_XDECREF(PyObject *o)
Decrement the reference count for object *o*. The object may be *NULL*, in
which case the macro has no effect; otherwise the effect is the same as for
- :cfunc:`Py_DECREF`, and the same warning applies.
+ :c:func:`Py_DECREF`, and the same warning applies.
-.. cfunction:: void Py_CLEAR(PyObject *o)
+.. c:function:: void Py_CLEAR(PyObject *o)
Decrement the reference count for object *o*. The object may be *NULL*, in
which case the macro has no effect; otherwise the effect is the same as for
- :cfunc:`Py_DECREF`, except that the argument is also set to *NULL*. The warning
- for :cfunc:`Py_DECREF` does not apply with respect to the object passed because
+ :c:func:`Py_DECREF`, except that the argument is also set to *NULL*. The warning
+ for :c:func:`Py_DECREF` does not apply with respect to the object passed because
the macro carefully uses a temporary variable and sets the argument to *NULL*
before decrementing its reference count.
@@ -64,10 +64,10 @@ objects.
The following functions are for runtime dynamic embedding of Python:
``Py_IncRef(PyObject *o)``, ``Py_DecRef(PyObject *o)``. They are
-simply exported function versions of :cfunc:`Py_XINCREF` and
-:cfunc:`Py_XDECREF`, respectively.
+simply exported function versions of :c:func:`Py_XINCREF` and
+:c:func:`Py_XDECREF`, respectively.
The following functions or macros are only for use within the interpreter core:
-:cfunc:`_Py_Dealloc`, :cfunc:`_Py_ForgetReference`, :cfunc:`_Py_NewReference`,
-as well as the global variable :cdata:`_Py_RefTotal`.
+:c:func:`_Py_Dealloc`, :c:func:`_Py_ForgetReference`, :c:func:`_Py_NewReference`,
+as well as the global variable :c:data:`_Py_RefTotal`.