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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2010-04-24 18:21:17 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2010-04-24 18:21:17 (GMT)
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prevent the dict constructor from accepting non-string keyword args #8419
This adds PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments, which checks that keyword arguments are all strings, using an optimized method if possible.
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@@ -366,6 +366,13 @@ and the following format units are left untouched.
va_list rather than a variable number of arguments.
+.. cfunction:: int PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments(PyObject *)
+
+ Ensure that the keys in the keywords argument dictionary are strings. This
+ is only needed if :cfunc:`PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords` is not used, since the
+ latter already does this check.
+
+
.. XXX deprecated, will be removed
.. cfunction:: int PyArg_Parse(PyObject *args, const char *format, ...)