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authorSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2002-09-30 15:25:13 (GMT)
committerSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2002-09-30 15:25:13 (GMT)
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fix a couple nits related to my understanding of ReST. Use of
``void (*)(PyObject *)`` isn't quite the same as void (*)(PyObject \*) but I gather ``...`` is preferable stylistically in most cases than ... \*...
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@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ The changes required fell into the following categories:
* In a few places asterisks needed to be escaped which would otherwise have
been interpreted as beginning blocks of italic or bold text, e.g.:
- - The type of tp_free has been changed from "void (*)(PyObject \*)"
- to "void (*)(void \*)".
+ - The type of tp_free has been changed from "``void (*)(PyObject *)``"
+ to "``void (*)(void *)``".
Note that only the asterisks preceded by whitespace needed to be escaped.
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ The changes required fell into the following categories:
- Note that PyLong_AsDouble can fail! This has always been true,
but no callers checked for it. It's more likely to fail now,
because overflow errors are properly detected now. The proper way
- to check: ::
+ to check::
double x = PyLong_AsDouble(some_long_object);
if (x == -1.0 && PyErr_Occurred()) {