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authorJeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>2005-12-10 18:50:16 (GMT)
committerJeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>2005-12-10 18:50:16 (GMT)
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Add const to several API functions that take char *.
In C++, it's an error to pass a string literal to a char* function without a const_cast(). Rather than require every C++ extension module to put a cast around string literals, fix the API to state the const-ness. I focused on parts of the API where people usually pass literals: PyArg_ParseTuple() and friends, Py_BuildValue(), PyMethodDef, the type slots, etc. Predictably, there were a large set of functions that needed to be fixed as a result of these changes. The most pervasive change was to make the keyword args list passed to PyArg_ParseTupleAndKewords() to be a const char *kwlist[]. One cast was required as a result of the changes: A type object mallocs the memory for its tp_doc slot and later frees it. PyTypeObject says that tp_doc is const char *; but if the type was created by type_new(), we know it is safe to cast to char *.
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Include/import.h b/Include/import.h
index 572cb8a..45cc6c9 100644
--- a/Include/import.h
+++ b/Include/import.h
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyImport_ExecCodeModule(char *name, PyObject *co);
PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyImport_ExecCodeModuleEx(
char *name, PyObject *co, char *pathname);
PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyImport_GetModuleDict(void);
-PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyImport_AddModule(char *name);
-PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyImport_ImportModule(char *name);
+PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyImport_AddModule(const char *name);
+PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyImport_ImportModule(const char *name);
PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyImport_ImportModuleEx(
char *name, PyObject *globals, PyObject *locals, PyObject *fromlist);
PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyImport_Import(PyObject *name);