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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2016-11-16 08:19:20 (GMT)
committerSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2016-11-16 08:19:20 (GMT)
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Issue #28701: Replace PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString with _PyUnicode_EqualToASCIIString.
The latter function is more readable, faster and doesn't raise exceptions.
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
index 5515ec3..9dea2d5 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
@@ -1643,6 +1643,9 @@ They all return *NULL* or ``-1`` if an exception occurs.
Compare two strings and return ``-1``, ``0``, ``1`` for less than, equal, and greater than,
respectively.
+ This function returns ``-1`` upon failure, so one should call
+ :c:func:`PyErr_Occurred` to check for errors.
+
.. c:function:: int PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString(PyObject *uni, const char *string)
@@ -1651,6 +1654,9 @@ They all return *NULL* or ``-1`` if an exception occurs.
ASCII-encoded strings, but the function interprets the input string as
ISO-8859-1 if it contains non-ASCII characters.
+ This function returns ``-1`` upon failure, so one should call
+ :c:func:`PyErr_Occurred` to check for errors.
+
.. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_RichCompare(PyObject *left, PyObject *right, int op)