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| author | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2006-06-26 12:43:43 (GMT) |
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| committer | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2006-06-26 12:43:43 (GMT) |
| commit | cd77e1cb2d8fc02fb8be8961ce45c121dcede6d6 (patch) | |
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Describe workaround for PyRange_New()'s removal
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex | 9 |
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex index adc4da6..234f0b3 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex @@ -2276,7 +2276,12 @@ the code can now be compiled with a {\Cpp} compiler without errors. \item The \cfunction{PyRange_New()} function was removed. It was never documented, never used in the core code, and had dangerously lax -error checking. +error checking. In the unlikely case that your extensions were using +it, you can replace it by something like the following: +\begin{verbatim} +range = PyObject_CallFunction((PyObject*) &PyRange_Type, "lll", + start, stop, step); +\end{verbatim} \end{itemize} @@ -2408,7 +2413,7 @@ freed with the corresponding family's \cfunction{*_Free()} function. The author would like to thank the following people for offering suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this -article: Nick Coghlan, Phillip J. Eby, "Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve, Kent +article: Nick Coghlan, Phillip J. Eby, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve, Kent Johnson, Martin von~L\"owis, Fredrik Lundh, Gustavo Niemeyer, James Pryor, Mike Rovner, Scott Weikart, Barry Warsaw, Thomas Wouters. |