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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2000-05-10 20:33:18 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2000-05-10 20:33:18 (GMT) |
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Section "The Module's Method Table and Initialization Function":
Explain that the name of the initialization function must be
init<module>(). Omission noted by Daniel Kozan
<crum@dev-group.com>.
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diff --git a/Doc/ext/ext.tex b/Doc/ext/ext.tex index e4a42a8..532331f 100644 --- a/Doc/ext/ext.tex +++ b/Doc/ext/ext.tex @@ -379,15 +379,18 @@ the Python-level parameters to be passed in as a tuple acceptable for parsing via \cfunction{PyArg_ParseTuple()}; more information on this function is provided below. -The \constant{METH_KEYWORDS} bit may be set in the third field if keyword -arguments should be passed to the function. In this case, the C -function should accept a third \samp{PyObject *} parameter which will -be a dictionary of keywords. Use \cfunction{PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()} -to parse the arguments to such a function. +The \constant{METH_KEYWORDS} bit may be set in the third field if +keyword arguments should be passed to the function. In this case, the +C function should accept a third \samp{PyObject *} parameter which +will be a dictionary of keywords. Use +\cfunction{PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()} to parse the arguments to +such a function. The method table must be passed to the interpreter in the module's -initialization function (which should be the only non-\code{static} -item defined in the module file): +initialization function. The initialization function must be named +\cfunction{init\var{name}()}, where \var{name} is the name of the +module, and should be the only non-\keyword{static} item defined in +the module file: \begin{verbatim} void |