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| author | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> | 2010-06-18 23:59:45 (GMT) |
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| committer | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> | 2010-06-18 23:59:45 (GMT) |
| commit | 2aa3af4a162e78714b7c4fceecc12fceab60e1bf (patch) | |
| tree | 3808d7d1e25ab9ebd6000feadb25bf82e75d7c81 /Doc | |
| parent | 1ddd4075bf65abb6b0b768774babdd6cc2a88ca1 (diff) | |
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Issue #8939: Improve arg.rst
* Add :ctype: to Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS and int
* "s" and "s#" formats of Py_BuildValue(): specify that the Python object type
is str in the description
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/c-api/arg.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst index 1c49c8b..158397a 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ the ``es``, ``es#``, ``et`` and ``et#`` formats. However, when a :ctype:`Py_buffer` structure gets filled, the underlying buffer is locked so that the caller can subsequently use the buffer even -inside a ``Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS`` block without the risk of mutable data +inside a :ctype:`Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS` block without the risk of mutable data being resized or destroyed. As a result, **you have to call** :cfunc:`PyBuffer_Release` after you have finished processing the data (or in any early abort case). @@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ Unless otherwise stated, buffers are not NUL-terminated. the length argument (int or :ctype:`Py_ssize_t`) is controlled by defining the macro :cmacro:`PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN` before including :file:`Python.h`. If the macro was defined, length is a - :ctype:`Py_ssize_t` rather than an int. This behavior will change + :ctype:`Py_ssize_t` rather than an :ctype:`int`. This behavior will change in a future Python version to only support :ctype:`Py_ssize_t` and - drop int support. It is best to always define :cmacro:`PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN`. + drop :ctype:`int` support. It is best to always define :cmacro:`PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN`. ``s`` (:class:`str`) [const char \*] @@ -492,11 +492,11 @@ Building values strings a tad more readable. ``s`` (:class:`str` or ``None``) [char \*] - Convert a null-terminated C string to a Python object using ``'utf-8'`` + Convert a null-terminated C string to a Python :class:`str` object using ``'utf-8'`` encoding. If the C string pointer is *NULL*, ``None`` is used. ``s#`` (:class:`str` or ``None``) [char \*, int] - Convert a C string and its length to a Python object using ``'utf-8'`` + Convert a C string and its length to a Python :class:`str` object using ``'utf-8'`` encoding. If the C string pointer is *NULL*, the length is ignored and ``None`` is returned. |