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| author | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> | 2010-06-13 18:21:50 (GMT) |
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| committer | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> | 2010-06-13 18:21:50 (GMT) |
| commit | 06e49dd0297beff7c8462025badfcc561c8c35c8 (patch) | |
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Issue #8592: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise a TypeError for "y", "u" and "Z"
formats if the string contains a null byte/character. Write unit tests for
string formats.
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst index ea897a8..1c49c8b 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst @@ -125,6 +125,8 @@ Unless otherwise stated, buffers are not NUL-terminated. pointer variable, which will be filled with the pointer to an existing Unicode buffer. Please note that the width of a :ctype:`Py_UNICODE` character depends on compilation options (it is either 16 or 32 bits). + The Python string must not contain embedded NUL characters; if it does, + a :exc:`TypeError` exception is raised. .. note:: Since ``u`` doesn't give you back the length of the string, and it |