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authorStefan Krah <skrah@bytereef.org>2015-02-01 18:42:45 (GMT)
committerStefan Krah <skrah@bytereef.org>2015-02-01 18:42:45 (GMT)
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Issue #23352: Merge from 3.4.
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@@ -198,6 +198,9 @@ a buffer, see :c:func:`PyObject_GetBuffer`.
indicates that no de-referencing should occur (striding in a contiguous
memory block).
+ If all suboffsets are negative (i.e. no de-referencing is needed, then
+ this field must be NULL (the default value).
+
This type of array representation is used by the Python Imaging Library
(PIL). See `complex arrays`_ for further information how to access elements
of such an array.