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authorMark Shannon <mark@hotpy.org>2022-08-09 13:26:37 (GMT)
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GH-92678: Document that you shouldn't be doing your own dictionary offset calculations. (GH-95598)
Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -1544,6 +1544,10 @@ Changes in the Python API
:func:`compile` and other related functions. If invalid positions are detected,
a :exc:`ValueError` will be raised. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo in :gh:`93351`)
+* :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_dictoffset` should be treated as write-only.
+ It can be set to describe C extension clases to the VM, but should be regarded
+ as meaningless when read. To get the pointer to the object's dictionary call
+ :c:func:`PyObject_GenericGetDict` instead.
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