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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2009-12-30 19:34:10 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2009-12-30 19:34:10 (GMT) |
| commit | 0f02d3933bff50042dd914d5d17831af7093cf55 (patch) | |
| tree | 68365aea879cae3caa8b4267e45922ec2fa49c18 /Doc/c-api | |
| parent | b7953f00b186baee159a2d5dfe1e80ca0ef00a29 (diff) | |
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check if the attribute is set before deleting it with T_OBJECT_EX (fixes #7604)
Also, add a note to the docs about the better behavior of T_OBJECT_EX as
compared to T_OBJECT.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/c-api/structures.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/structures.rst b/Doc/c-api/structures.rst index c4fb218..c2847e8 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/structures.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/structures.rst @@ -281,7 +281,10 @@ definition with the same method name. :cmacro:`T_OBJECT` and :cmacro:`T_OBJECT_EX` differ in that :cmacro:`T_OBJECT` returns ``None`` if the member is *NULL* and - :cmacro:`T_OBJECT_EX` raises an :exc:`AttributeError`. + :cmacro:`T_OBJECT_EX` raises an :exc:`AttributeError`. Try to use + :cmacro:`T_OBJECT_EX` over :cmacro:`T_OBJECT` because :cmacro:`T_OBJECT_EX` + handles use of the :stmt:`del` statement on that attribute more correctly + than :cmacro:`T_OBJECT`. :attr:`flags` can be 0 for write and read access or :cmacro:`READONLY` for read-only access. Using :cmacro:`T_STRING` for :attr:`type` implies |