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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-01-06 07:17:30 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-01-06 07:17:30 (GMT) |
| commit | 818581c72a4f93fe0462072dad8440d57a06cd1d (patch) | |
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Merged revisions 87784 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k
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r87784 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-06 08:16:31 +0100 (jeu., 06 janv. 2011) | 3 lines
Issue #10840: make it explicit that "s*" and friends provide contiguous memory.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/c-api/arg.rst | 7 |
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst index b5e51f6..21cebe9 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst @@ -30,9 +30,10 @@ variable(s) whose address should be passed. Strings and buffers ------------------- -These formats do not expect you to provide raw storage for the returned string -or bytes. Also, you won't have to release any memory yourself, except with -the ``es``, ``es#``, ``et`` and ``et#`` formats. +These formats allow to access an object as a contiguous chunk of memory. +You don't have to provide raw storage for the returned unicode or bytes +area. Also, you won't have to release any memory yourself, except with 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 |